An edition of Making it up (2005)

Making it up

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Making it up
Penelope Lively
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An edition of Making it up (2005)

Making it up

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"Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed you where you are, as the person that you are, and the whole process seems so precarious that you look back at those climatic moments when things might have gone differently, when life might have spun off in some other direction, and wonder at this apparently arbitrary outcome". In this fascinating new piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks "what if" she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18? If she had married someone else? If she taken a different job? If she had lived her life abroad? In this highly original work, Penelope Lively examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path....

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
247

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Cover of: Making It Up
Making It Up
2009, Penguin Group UK
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Cover of: Making it up
Making it up
2005, Wheeler Pub., Wheeler Publishing
in English
Cover of: Making it up
Making it up
2005, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Making it up
Making it up
2005, Viking
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Published in
London
Genre
Fiction.

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Library of Congress
PR6062.I89 M34 2005, PR6062.I89

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Pagination
247 p. ;
Number of pages
247

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OL16729737M
ISBN 10
0670915793
LCCN
2008271608
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38944
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3763457

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