An Education, Lynn Barber
An Education, Lynn Barber
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An Education

Author: Lynn Barber

Narrator: Carolyn Seymour

Unabridged: 4 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/16/2010

Synopsis

When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experiencean affair with an older man that would change her life. Barbers seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews both terrorized and fascinated her smartset subjects.A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary lifefrom promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at Penthouse to a complex marriage that enduredAn Education is a classic of English memoir.

About Lynn Barber

Lynn Barber studied English at Oxford University. She began her career in journalism at Penthouse and has since worked for a number of major British newspapers and for Vanity Fair. She has won five British Press Awards and has published two volumes of her celebrated interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elaine Mullane on April 11, 2020

I have a thing for memoirs. I understand people's concerns that memoirs more than often show a very one-sided account of events, but I like to think I can remain objective while enjoying some time inside someone else's head. An Education has been on my shelf for many years, which is why I have tackl......more

Goodreads review by Plateresca on August 08, 2021

'I am of an age (sixty-five) where most people start worrying about Alzheimer's and panicking if they forget a name. But I won't even notice when I get Alzheimer's because I've had such a flaky memory all my life.' I read this book because I'd watched the stylish film. The particular chapter that the......more

Goodreads review by Oriana on October 11, 2010

I should just say, by the by, that this is one of my absolute favorite ways to read: I scored this book at the Brokelyn Book Swap (I forget what I traded for it; certainly some crap), and I knew and know absolutely nothing about it. I've never heard of Lynn Barber, I only know this book was made int......more

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