01477cam a2200241 a 4500001001400000003000900014005001700023008004100040010001700081020003100098040002300129050002600152100002700178245003800205260003500243300002100278520080900299600001901108650003901127650004401166887001901210888000601229AUWbook028946BDCtgAUW20260831140002.0260824s2000    enk           000 0aeng    a  2002391955  a9781847084279q(paperback)  aDLCcDLCdBDCtgAUW00aPN149.9b.A88 A3 20001 aAthill, Diana.eauthor10aStet :ba memoir /cDiana Athill.  aLondon :bGranta Books,c2000.  a250 p. ;c19 cm.  aFor nearly five decades, Diana Athill edited (nursed, coerced, coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language, among them V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, John Updike, Jean Rhys, Mordecai Richler, Molly Keane, and Norman Mailer. A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house André Deutsch Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate insider's portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books—spiced with candid insights about the type of people who make brilliant writers and ingenious publishers, and the idiosyncrasies of both. It is both "wryly humorous" (The New York Times Book Review) and "full of history, wisdom, and dirt" (The Boston Globe).cFrom Amazon.10aAthill, Diana. 0aEditorszGreat BritainvBiography. 0aBook editorszGreat BritainvBiography.  28aPapia Akter  28