Ghosting - Jennie Erdal

Ghosting

A Double Life

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2005 | Main
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84195-637-4 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
Ghosting is a remarkable account of one woman's life - or, to be more accurate, lives.

For fifteen years, Jennie Erdal had a double existence: officially she worked as a personal editor for one particular man - Tiger - but in reality she was his ghost-writer and in some mysterious sense his alter ego. During this time she wrote a great deal that appeared under his name - from personal letters and business correspondence to newspaper columns, novels and full length books.

Ghosting moves from a vivid evocation of an austere upbringing in Fife to superbly rendered portraits of the people with whom Jennie Erdal worked at a London-based publishing house, chief among them Tiger, the larger-than-life character with whom the author had a unique and symbiotic relationship; professionally hidden, yet somehow truthful and intimate. This moving and beautifully written memoir is laced throughout with rich, quiet comedy and profound insights into what it means to be human and to live in language.

Ghosting is a meditation on words, identity and creativity, but above all it is a portrait of a uniquely intimate relationship between a man and a woman.

Jennie Erdal worked as an editor and translator for many years. Ghosting, the first book published under her own name, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book Award and the J.R. Ackerley Prize; it was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.6.2005
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 202 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Wirtschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10 1-84195-637-6 / 1841956376
ISBN-13 978-1-84195-637-4 / 9781841956374
Zustand Neuware
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