Alive, Alive, Oh! And Other Things That Matter. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY FROM ATHILL TO HER FRIEND ROBIN DALTON.

ATHILL, Diana

Published by Granta. London, 2015

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Granta. 2015. First edition. Small 8vo hardback in DW. PRESENTATION COPY FROM ATHILL TO HER FRIEND ROBIN DALTON. "For dearest Robin, with much love from Diana." to title page. Fine in wrapper. From the "Telegraph" 14th May, 2016. Two lively literary ladies are comparing notes about the business of getting old. "Do you have trouble sleeping?" the author Diana Athill asks her friend and fellow nonagenarian Robin Dalton. Dalton considers briefly. "Well, no," she replies. "I rather enjoy not being able to sleep because I enjoy trying to remember all the people I've been to bed with." Athill laughs. "So do I!" Robin Dalton lived to 101 and had an extraordinary life and career. As a literary agent she represented Edna O'Brien, John Osborne, Iris Murdoch, Ben Travers, George Orwell, Margaret Drabble, B. S. Johnson, Bernice Rubens and many more. She also produced films, spied for Thai Government and for over five years dated the cousin and best man of Prince Philip. Born in Australia, she spent most of her adult life in London, surfed until she was 96 and went on entertaining people of all ages in her luxurious Hampstead flat until she died. Seller Inventory # 99524

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Title: Alive, Alive, Oh! And Other Things That ...

Publisher: Granta. London

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition