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My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past

by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Publisher Comments:

In this, her first novel in more than nine years, in a career studded with distinctive and unique accomplishments, award-winning Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written her most unusual book. My Nine Lives, "Chapters of a Possible Past," as the subtitle declares, is comprised of nine vignettes that lead from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York—all linked to portray a rich life, filled with spiritual searching.

After seventeen books, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala takes herself on as a subject, exploring the lives she may have or may have wished to live. My Nine Lives is a moving and intriguing book of truth, invention, history, and memory.

Synopsis:

In nine vignettes of autobiographical fiction--linked to portray a rich life, filled with searching, from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York--Jhabvala creates "invented memories" that form "chapters of a possible past."

Product Details

ISBN:
9781593760694
Subtitle:
Chapters of a Possible Past
Author:
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
Publisher:
Counterpoint LLC
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
FICTION / Literary
Publication Date:
June 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.42x5.68x.83 in. .80 lbs.

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