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PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101681376113

ISBN-139781681376110

eBay Product ID (ePID)22050395552

Product Key Features

Book TitleDon't Look at Me like That

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Coming of Age

Publication Year2023

GenreFiction

AuthorDiana Athill

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-025173

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Like Athill's nonfiction, this too is an editor's book, taut and briskly paced, precision-cut and ruthlessly economical...In Athill's hands, economy never feels stingy: The effect is of luxurious distillation....This happy, if slightly astringent, dose of realism is what makes Athill's lone novel something special, in our time, but hers as well." --Sadie Stein, The New York Times Book Review " Don't Look at Me Like That evokes a London of rain; grimy bedsits, plush, hushed restaurants, illicitness and despair. . . Athill skillfully blends diffidence and pathos to produce a story at once all-too familiar and unique." --Catherine Taylor "Athill is wonderful--always aware of the need to entertain and beguile her reader. . . Fascinating and surprising." --Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times "[The writing] shows [Athill's] editor's eye. . . This novel shows not so much that Athill should have written more fiction--we wouldn't want to be without those memoirs--but that she could." --John Self, The Guardian "Diana Athill's writing is warm, straightforward, natural, enveloping. A blanketing comfort for a sore heart, a fuzzy head. . . . Athill's skill as a writer of feelings is on full display. She is incisive without coming off as mean or angry, clear without being flat." --Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, The Millions, "Like Athill's nonfiction, this too is an editor's book, taut and briskly paced, precision-cut and ruthlessly economical...In Athill's hands, economy never feels stingy: The effect is of luxurious distillation....This happy, if slightly astringent, dose of realism is what makes Athill's lone novel something special, in our time, but hers as well." --Sadie Stein, The New York Times Book Review "The novel serves as an intriguing exposition of the thin dividing line between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Even the bohemian life Meg lives apart from Dick, punctuated by a flourishing illustration career and a bevy of romantic suitors, is painted in ordinary strokes...In having Meg dispense with many of the fantasies and illusions that sustain ordinary life, Athill suggests that we don't know why we do the things we do." --Mathilde Hjertholm Nielsen, Full Stop " Don't Look at Me Like That evokes a London of rain; grimy bedsits, plush, hushed restaurants, illicitness and despair. . . Athill skillfully blends diffidence and pathos to produce a story at once all-too familiar and unique." --Catherine Taylor "Athill is wonderful--always aware of the need to entertain and beguile her reader. . . Fascinating and surprising." --Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times "[The writing] shows [Athill's] editor's eye. . . This novel shows not so much that Athill should have written more fiction--we wouldn't want to be without those memoirs--but that she could." --John Self, The Guardian "Diana Athill's writing is warm, straightforward, natural, enveloping. A blanketing comfort for a sore heart, a fuzzy head. . . . Athill's skill as a writer of feelings is on full display. She is incisive without coming off as mean or angry, clear without being flat." --Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, The Millions, "Diana Athill's writing is warm, straightforward, natural, enveloping. A blanketing comfort for a sore heart, a fuzzy head.... Athill's skill as a writer of feelings is on full display. She is incisive without coming off as mean or angry, clear without being flat." --Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, The Millions " Don't Look at Me Like That evokes a London of rain; grimy bedsits, plush, hushed restaurants, illicitness and despair. . . Athill skillfully blends diffidence and pathos to produce a story at once all-too familiar and unique." --Catherine Taylor, " Don't Look at Me Like That evokes a London of rain; grimy bedsits, plush, hushed restaurants, illicitness and despair. . . Athill skillfully blends diffidence and pathos to produce a story at once all-too familiar and unique." --Catherine Taylor "Athill is wonderful--always aware of the need to entertain and beguile her reader. . . Fascinating and surprising." --Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times "[The writing] shows [Athill's] editor's eye. . . This novel shows not so much that Athill should have written more fiction--we wouldn't want to be without those memoirs--but that she could." --John Self, The Guardian "Diana Athill's writing is warm, straightforward, natural, enveloping. A blanketing comfort for a sore heart, a fuzzy head. . . . Athill's skill as a writer of feelings is on full display. She is incisive without coming off as mean or angry, clear without being flat." --Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, The Millions

Afterword byOyeyemi, Helen

Dewey Decimal823.914

SynopsisA candid novel of love, betrayal, and friendship about a young woman who breaks with her peers, moves to London, and begins a shocking affair. England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from secondary school to an un-Bohemian art college in Oxford. Under the watchful eye of Roxane's mother, Mrs. Weaver, the two girls flourish in Oxfordian society. But Meg constantly longs for more. Not content to stay in Oxford, she finds a job in London. Roxane stays behind and marries Dick, a man of Mrs. Weaver's choosing. As Meg's independence grows, Dick suddenly appears in London for work. A connection to her past, Meg and Dick's friendship flourishes, blurring the lines of loyalty between what is and what was in a way that changes life for these three friends forever. As sharp and startling now as when it was written, this unflinching and candid book of love and betrayal encapsulates Diana Athill's gift of storytelling at its finest., A candid novel of love, betrayal, and friendship about a young woman who breaks with her peers, moves to London, and begins a shocking affair. "When I was at school I used to think that everyone disliked me, and it wasn't far from true" confesses Meg Bailey at the start of Don't Look at Me Like That . Coming of age in the mid-1940s, Meg finds herself to be out of place wherever she finds herself: She is a nonbeliever in her father's parsonage, an artistic dreamer at her stuffy boarding school, a provincial in the worldly circles frequented by her best friend Roxane and Dick, Roxane's future husband. It is only when Meg, newly graduated from art school, moves into an untidy London rooming house alive with the sounds of crying children, sparring lovers, and even foreigners, that she begins to feel at home. But ties to the past are not so easily severed, and Meg must disentangle herself from her troubled intimacy with Roxane and Dick before she can begin to start "living in her own way." Don't Look at Me Like That is the only novel by the famed memoirist and editor Diana Athill, who died in 2019 at the age of one hundred and one. At once clear-eyed and compassionate, it is a story of making mistakes and making a life.

LC Classification NumberPR6051.T43D66 2022