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Title: An Education
Author: Lynn Barber
Narrator: Carolyn Seymour
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-18-10
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 48 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
When Lynn Barber was 16, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experiencean affair with an older man that would change her life. Barbers seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews both terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.
A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary lifefrom promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at Penthouse to a complex marriage that enduredAn Education is a classic of English memoir.
Critic Reviews:
The most riveting memoir you will read this year, comic and tragic by turns. A small masterpiece. (Literary Review)
Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout. (Zoë Heller, novelist and journalist)
