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

Barber, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141044144 ISBN 13: 9780141044149

Publisher: Viking, 2009

Synopsis

Lynn Barber's true story, now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, revealing how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous life-style at university until she met her husband-to-be. An Education tells how she went on to work for seven years at daring (for the times) men's magazine Penthouse before beginning her starry days as the Demon Barber - Britain's most entertaining and most feared interviewer. The book ends with an extraordinarily moving account of the early death of her husband. Her writing is refreshingly frank and funny.

About this title

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: Viking
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141044144
• ISBN 13: 9780141044149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200