Surprise Castle
/Books/Biography & Autobiography/Personal Memoirs/Women
Make Believe: A True Story

Make Believe: A True Story - Paperback

by Diana Athill
$9.99
$13.50
-26%
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Availability:In StockContributor:Diana Athill, Patrick French (Introduction by)Publish date:2023-05-02Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Granta BooksISBN-13:9781783787449ISBN-10:1783787449UPC:9781783787449Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures, WomenSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCAZH81XWD

In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s.

Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and Jamal's, and separately Gail's, eventual murders.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Granta BooksISBN-13:9781783787449ISBN-10:1783787449UPC:9781783787449Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Literary Figures, WomenSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCAZH81XWD
DIANA ATHILL was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet, which is also published by Granta Books, as are five volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End and a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She died in January 2019.
Publisher: Granta Books

Contributor(s)

Diana Athill, Patrick French (Introduction by)

Author

Diana Athill

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.

Recently Viewed

View All