An Education: My Life Might Have Turned Out Differently If I Had Just Said No - Softcover

Barber, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141039558 ISBN 13: 9780141039558

Publisher: Penguin UK, 2009

Synopsis

When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was encouraged by her conventional, suburban parents and which took her into the louche, semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began. Ruin beckoned, until one day she made an important discovery. 'An Education', the opening piece of this fascinating memoir, was highly praised when first published in Granta magazine, and is currently being filmed by the BBC with a Nick Hornby script.

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From the Back Cover:

When Lynn Barber began an affair with an older man at the age of sixteen, it changed her life. A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary life—from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at Penthouse to a complex marriage that endured—An Education is a classic of English memoir.

About the Author:

Lynn Barber studied English at Oxford University. She began her career in journalism at Penthouse, and has since worked for a number of major British newspapers and for Vanity Fair. She currently writes for the Observer. She has published two volumes of her celebrated interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141039558
• ISBN 13: 9780141039558
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256