Making It Up

Making It Up - Ediciones

3 ediciones

Making It Up

Editorial: penguin_books

ISBN: 978-01-4303-784-2

ISBN sin guiones: 9780143037842

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 224

Fecha de publicación: 2006-09-26

Idioma: inglés (Estados Unidos)

Making It Up

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4192-867-8

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141928678

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 256

Fecha de publicación: 2006-08-03

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Making It Up

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4102-119-5

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141021195

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 256

Fecha de publicación: 2006-08-03

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Making It Up

Penelope Lively

Primera publicación: 2006-08-03

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....