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A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStet is a must-read for the literarily curious, who will revel in Athill's portraits of such great literary figures as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Mordecai Richler, and others. Spiced with candid observations about the type of people who make brilliant writers and ingenious publishers (and the idiosyncrasies of both), Stet is an invaluable contribution to the literature of literature, and in the words of the Sunday Telegraph, \"all would-be authors and editors should have a copy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/diana-athill-books\"\u003eDiana Athill\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780802116833\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47914306207921,"sku":"SB-0802116833-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0802116833.jpg?v=1789183510"},{"product_id":"stet-an-editors-life","title":"Stet: An Editor's Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiana Athill's Stet is \"a beautifully written, hardheaded, and generally insightful look back at the heyday of postwar London publishing by a woman who was at its center for nearly half a century\" (The Washington Times). A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books. Stet is a must-read for the literarily curious, who will revel in Athill's portraits of such great literary figures as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Mordecai Richler, and others. Spiced with candid observations about the type of people who make brilliant writers and ingenious publishers (and the idiosyncrasies of both), Stet is an invaluable contribution to the literature of literature, and in the words of the Sunday Telegraph, \"all would-be authors and editors should have a copy.\" \"Wryly humorous ... notable for its extraordinary lucidity....\" -- The New York Times Book Review \"A beguiling tonic to book business sob stories... Stet can barely contain Athill's charm and great big heart.\" -- Newsday \"In addition to telling a good story, Athill writes profoundly about how she is affected by the books she loves.\" -- The Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/diana-athill-books\"\u003eDiana Athill\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780802138620\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £4.01","offer_id":47914312532145,"sku":"SB-0802138624-C3","price":4.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0802138624_cfb30e6d-0895-4995-bf70-fa7ff142721f.jpg?v=1790300555"},{"product_id":"make-believe","title":"Make Believe","description":"\u003cp\u003eSex, Race, and Politics are all at the heart of this extraordinary account of the short life and violent death of Hakim Jamal. A black American radical who was born Alan Donaldson in a Boston ghetto and reborn in prison as a follower of Malcolm X, Hakim took the movie star Jean Seberg as lover, wrote and published the story of his life, and finally came to believe that he was God. Diana Athill, a well known British editor, liked the man in Hakim, and saw the book in his life. She became his friend, briefly his lover, and then watched with dismay as he slowly destroyed his prospects, alienated his friends, and exploited his young English girlfriend, Gail Benson, the daughter of a Member of Parliament. Benson changed her name to Hale Kimga to please Hakim and followed him to Trinidad, where she was brutally murdered in 1972. The crime caused a sensation at the time and was later incorporated by V.S. Naipual in his novel, Guerrillas. Hakim himself was shot to death in Boston a few years later, and not long afterward Jean Seberg killed herself in Paris. But from this sad cautionary tale it is the voice of Diana Athill that the reader may best remember - cool, direct, vivid, honest, unblinking. There are no false words or emotions here, simply the spare and moving narrative of a man who found and lost himself in the span of a few years. 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Elegant, clear-sighted and self- deprecating, her memoirs offer a wise and often very funny account of a life in publishing; a life in which the parade of literary luminaries takes second place to Athill's sheer love of language and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/diana-athill-books\"\u003eDiana Athill\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Granta Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781862074408\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47918634172593,"sku":"SB-1862074402-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1862074402_86359254-38d9-4c69-a40d-f70cb7c83eee.jpg?v=1790354354"}],"url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/collections\/diana-athill-books.oembed","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}