Stet Free Download PDF By Diana Athill
| Title | : | Stet |
| Author | : | Diana Athill |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 256 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0802138624 |
A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books Stet is a must read for the literarily curious, who will revel in Athill s portraits of such great l A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books Stet is a must read for the literarily curious, who will revel in Athill s portraits of such great literary figures as Jean Rhys, V S Naipaul, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Mordecai Richler, and others Spiced with candid observations about the type of people who make brilliant writers and ingenious publishers and the idiosyncrasies of both , Stet is an invaluable contribution to the literature of literature, and in the words of the Sunday Telegraph, all would be authors and editors should have a copy
about Author
Diana Athill was born in Norfolk in 1917 and educated at home until she was fourteen She read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and graduated in 1939 She spent the war years working at the BBC Overseas Service in the News Information Department After the war she met Andr Deutsch and fell into publishing She worked as an editor, first at Allan Wingate and then at Andr Deutsch, until her r Diana Athill was born in Norfolk in 1917 and educated at home until she was fourteen She read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and graduated in 1939 She spent the war years working at the BBC Overseas Service in the News Information Department After the war she met Andr Deutsch and fell into publishing She worked as an editor, first at Allan Wingate and then at Andr Deutsch, until her retirement at the age of 75 in 1993 Her books include An Unavoidable Delay, a collection of short stories published in 1962 and two documentary books After A Funeral and Make Believe Stet is a memoir of Diana Athill s fifty year career in publishing Granta has also reissued a memoir Instead of a Letter and her only novel Don t Look at Me Like That She lives in Primrose Hill in London 
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A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London,
256 pagesDiana Athill
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