After A Funeral (Paperback)

Diana Athill (author)

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Paperback 176 Pages
Published: 03/02/2022

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Synopsis Author

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life.

When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and holidays, and a life of easy intimacy seemed to beckon.

But Didi's sweetness and intelligence soon revealed a darker side - he was a gambler, a drinker and a womanizer, impossible to live with but impossible to ignore. With painful honesty, Athill explores the three years they spent together, a period that culminated in Didi's suicide - in her home - an event he described in the journals he left for her to read as 'the one authentic act of my life'.

Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781783787401
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 130 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 10 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

Only a few totally honest accounts of a human life exist. To see the truth of your own life you must have gotten beyong all illusions about yourself, and probably about the world, as well. Few of us do. Diana Athill is one of the few. - Washington Post

A book which gives a new dimension to honesty, a new comprehension to love - Vogue

Anyone who believes that human relationships are important cannot fail to be moved by this book - Daily Telegraph

An extraordinary memoir - Good Homes

Diana Athill

Amongst editors, Diana Athill enjoyed a near-legendary status, enabling talents such as John Updike, Jean Rhys and V.S. Naipaul to reach extraordinary literary heights. Synonymous with publisher André Deutsch, Athill underpinned a writing revolution. All this, however, was in parallel with a flourishing genius of her own. 1962’s Instead of a Letter was a bold, unusual, and incredibly cathartic memoir of love and loss; several decades later, Athill released a string of unforgettable life accounts, including tales of her craft in 2000’s Stet and the astonishing clarity of 2015's Alive, Alive Oh!

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