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Journey from the North: A Memoir

Journey from the North: A Memoir

Jameson, Storm
Gornick, Vivian

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ISBN10: 1805330446
ISBN13: 9781805330448
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: Jul 16 2024
Pages: 800
Weight: 2.20
Height: 2.20 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
One of the 20th century's finest memoirs of literary and political life, with an introduction by Vivian Gornick, who referred to the book as literary gold

Stops you in your tracks. I would like to persuade everyone to read it -- Sunday Times

A compulsively readable, beautifully written account of a fascinating twentieth-century woman and life. This candid, affecting portrait of a woman who loathed domesticity explores how she sought to balance a literary career with political commitment.

Towards the end of her life, the writer Storm Jameson began her memoir by asking, can I make sense of my life? This question propelled her through an extraordinary reckoning with how she had lived: her early years in Whitby, shadowed by her tempestuous, dissatisfied mother; an early, unhappy marriage and repeated flights from settled domesticity; a tenaciously pursued literary career, always dogged by a lack of money; and her lifelong political activism, including as the first female president of English PEN, helping refugees escape Nazi Germany.

In a richly ironic, conversational voice, Jameson tells also of the great figures she knew and events she witnessed: encounters with H.G. Wells and Rose Macaulay, travels in Europe as fascism was rising and a 1945 trip to recently liberated Warsaw. Throughout, she casts an unsparing eye on her own motivations and psychology, providing a rigorously candid and lively portrait of her life and times.

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