{"product_id":"dancing-fish-and-ammonites","title":"Dancing Fish and Ammonites","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDancing Fish and Ammonites\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePenelope Lively\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780670016556\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eViking\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e240\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been. \u003cbr\u003eMemory and history have been Penelope Lively s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her influences and formative years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing Fish and Ammonites \u003c\/i\u003etraces the arc of Lively s life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britain s twentieth century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journey including a sherd of Egyptian ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago on a Dorset beach. She also writes insightfully about aging and what life looks like from where she now stands.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Dancing Fish and Ammonites | Penelope Lively | Hardcover | 9780670016556 | Used: Like New | Memoir 1686451","offer_id":48700402466968,"sku":"1686451","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Dancing Fish and Ammonites | Penelope Lively | Hardcover | 9780670016556 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756683","offer_id":49147087978648,"sku":"1756683","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/A18Lj72YNoL.jpg?v=1773771621","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dancing-fish-and-ammonites","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}