Slipstream
Book description
Slipstream brilliantly illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a highly personal insight into the life of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one of our most beloved British writers.
'This is a brave, absorbing and vulnerable book' - Guardian
Elizabeth looks back over…
Why read it?
1 author picked Slipstream as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
At 79, Howard looks back on her life. Beautiful and talented, she lacked any instinct for self-presevation, and was exploited by numerous well-known men of letters.
She drifted through life feeling helpless and disregarded, but unable to take any initiative, allowed her baby daughter to be taken away by a nanny, and ended up monstrously mistreated by her husband Kingsley Amis. The combination of miserable passivity and amazing frankness is unique, and I found this book unputdownable.
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