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An Education

By Lynn Barber

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780141044149

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1960: A stranger in a sports car offered sixteen-year-old Lynn Barber a lift. It changed her life.

The strager charmed his way not only into Lynn's life, but also that of her parents. He took her virginity, whisked her off to Paris, introduced her to his charming friends and even offered to make Continue

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Book review: An Education, by Lynn Barber

AT THE BEGINNING OF LYNN BARBER's brief autobiography, she fully admits to being "a deeply unreliable memoirist" who is "never exactly a slave to facts". I'm not sure how her interviewees will respond to this, though by now Barber's reputation as the ... (read full critics)

thescotsman published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

An Education by Lynn Barber

When she was 16, Lynn Barber got into a car with a strange man. Soon – and with her parents' blessing – this obviously dodgy character was showing her a good time in London's West End and eventually he proposed. She was going to Oxford, but why bothe ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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電影改編節選吸引, 真人真話更引人

開始時絕對受電影介紹而吸引, 英國vs巴黎; 年青少艾與成熟男生的一段情, 如開拓了一個新世界。
因為未有時間看戲, 先四處找書看看。
結果發現書應該只是真的"inspired"套戲, 因為本書除這段關係外, 更紀錄了她的工作(editor, writer!!), 及婚姻生活。相信Lynn是一個直接的人, 看到好坦白的回憶, 很好看。已很久未試過會追看小說了。
一些引言:
"I felt, as Julie Burchill memorably remarked, that when I discovered writing it was as if I'd been speaking ... (continue)

開始時絕對受電影介紹而吸引, 英國vs巴黎; 年青少艾與成熟男生的一段情, 如開拓了一個新世界。
因為未有時間看戲, 先四處找書看看。
結果發現書應該只是真的"inspired"套戲, 因為本書除這段關係外, 更紀錄了她的工作(editor, writer!!), 及婚姻生活。相信Lynn是一個直接的人, 看到好坦白的回憶, 很好看。已很久未試過會追看小說了。
一些引言:
"I felt, as Julie Burchill memorably remarked, that when I discovered writing it was as if I'd been speaking a second language up till then and had finally found my mother tongue".
"I developed a fondness for advertisements which you rarely find among pring journalists. Most journalists see advertisements as horrid unnecessary intrusions which spoil the look of their pages, but I learned at Penthouse to see them as lifesavers that would pay my salary for the next three months. When Kathy strode through the ofice shrieking 'I've got Lufthansa!' or 'Six months of Dormeuil!' we would crack open the (Spanish) champagne and celebrate her success. The fact that Harry then lost us the Lufthansa ad by putting it in the middle of an arcile about Nazi war atrocities..."

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