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A Memoir

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by Frank Kermode

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Inc

Due/Published May 1999, 272 pages, paper

ISBN 0374525927

From a great critic of english literature, a different kind of text: a luminous account of his own life.

Throughout this uniquely personal work, Frank Kermode touches on the deeper, lighter, ineffable issues of autobiography, and he does so with his characteristic grace, precision, and amused wisdom. Tracing his life from his childhood through his six years in the Royal Navy during World War II, from his student days in Liverpool to his battles at Cambridge over the literature curriculum and faculty, he shows us the miraculous connections between life and literature, between the world and the word; more, he transforms and ennobles both.