{"product_id":"二手书-暮色将尽-9成新","title":"Used Book: *Twilight Approaches* [90% New]","description":"\u003cp\u003eA legendary British editor of the 20th century, sharing her single life at 89,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe penned a heartfelt memoir coolly facing \"fading\":\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe candid voice of a single woman x new gains in old age;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman's life where compromise and freedom repeatedly wrestled\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— For survival, she navigated the world; for self, she guarded her spiritual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e✨ Editor's Recommendation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◎ Diana Athill, winner of the Costa Biography Award and the editor who discovered V.S. Naipaul, began her writing career after retiring at 76. Nearing 90, she looks back on her legendary life, writing a humorous and frank memoir of old age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was an editor profoundly trusted by writers:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ In those early years, I sometimes spoke to Francis Wyndham and Diana Athill in my head as I wrote. —V.S. Naipaul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ Diana was my first British editor... Anyone who knew her and read her memoirs would feel admiration for her, for her honest, unadorned and elegant style, her unpretentious personality, and her stoicism in the face of life's diminishing possibilities. She was a model of how to grow old, though growing old is not something we choose. I was fortunate to have met her in my life. —Margaret Atwood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet, she often couldn't resist sharp remarks about writers:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ Sometimes she (Jean Rhys, author of \"Wide Sargasso Sea\") would provocatively declare she was going to dye her almost grey hair bright red, but she never did, and the reason she didn't, I think, was not because she lacked the energy to do it, but rather because she still had a little sanity left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ Elias Canetti, the Nobel laureate born in Bulgaria, was another negative example I saw; his way of challenging death seemed even more foolish compared to Jean's anxiety. ... His declaration that he \"refused to die\" finally pushed me beyond endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◎ An \"unseen\" old age is the future we will all eventually reach;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe long-lived Athill penned this sincere record, \"peeling\" back herself in old age for you to see:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ From makeup to clothes, \"old women\" pay more attention to appearance ◆ It's so hard to watch a seedling grow into a towering tree ◆ Driving is the \"last stubbornness\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut even in life's twilight, stars still shine, and the elderly are still living, still growing—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Never in my life have I enjoyed myself so comfortably and for so long as I do now.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ Ebbing hormones make thoughts clearer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ Love is still \"happening\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ Shyness and social anxiety have disappeared\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ How lucky, I can actually write\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◎ The 89-year-old \"single woman\" senior speaks frankly, shattering the shackles on women in traditional marriage concepts:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ Gracefully enjoying every romantic relationship—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese relationships were exciting, but none ever hurt me;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWomen too can experience passion simply for sex, without love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◆ A conception of childbirth that prioritizes \"self-feelings\"—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(First reaction upon waking after a miscarriage) I'm alive! I feel whole;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Her calm attitude about ultimately not becoming a mother) I really don't mind not having been a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e◎ Hardcover small format design, convenient to hold and carry;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover in black + gold, profound yet bright: title hot-stamped in gold, cover printed with an ink-wash style silhouette of the author—though twilight has come, the scene is still magnificent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e📖 Content Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Somewhere Towards the End\" is Diana Athill's representative work, which won numerous awards, including the Costa Biography Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is a collection of essays on old age, written when she was nearly 90, characterized by frank and open language and a delightful wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe begins by discussing the various changes of old age, interspersed with recollections of her past life. She candidly recalls several of her love affairs, confesses her indifference to missing out on motherhood, honestly confronts the pains of old age, yet still speaks with great enthusiasm about the new experiences gained through gardening, painting, reading, and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverall, Athill presents us with a very unique female archetype, showing us how an ordinary intellectual woman manages to preserve her independent self while navigating the world, and ultimately faces aging and the end of life with equanimity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e✨ Media Recommendations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA perfect memoir of old age — frank, sensitive, charming, without self-pity or sentimentality, and above all, beautifully written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Costa Award Judges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiana Athill is 90 years old, and though by the standards of her era and class for women, her life should have been full of regrets, she feels no regrets at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough the theme of \"Somewhere Towards the End\" (old age) is not inherently pleasant, Diana Athill's refusal to sugarcoat, her promise of honesty, and her charming writing style make the book engaging and delightful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer perspective is both cool and tender. She speaks of her waning sexuality, her determined atheism, her increasing preference for non-fiction, and the fact that even at her advanced age, much of her time is spent caring for those even older than herself. The achievement of Athill's work is that she does not reduce the fascinating details of her life to didactic pronouncements about wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a frank and sincere pleasure in reading it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Alice Munro (2013 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🏆 Awards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e⭐️ 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e⭐️ 2008 Costa Book Award for Biography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WULOLIFE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56915493814616,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0575\/8097\/8291\/files\/IMG_4869.heic?v=1773568452","url":"https:\/\/wulolife.com\/en\/products\/%e4%ba%8c%e6%89%8b%e4%b9%a6-%e6%9a%ae%e8%89%b2%e5%b0%86%e5%b0%bd-9%e6%88%90%e6%96%b0","provider":"WULOLIFE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}