![]() ![]() 9781999331818 A Respectable Occupation 26.2000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction /shop/books/non-fiction/biography-memoir /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/contemporary 'The best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood,' Hemingway famously said. ![]() From her native Brittany to the city of Shakespeare and Company, to a seaside cafe on the Atlantic coast, to Budapest and back, the author conjures a feminine answer to A Moveable Feast. Her vibrant ode to reading, and to writing as a space for discovery (as well as a 'respectable occupation') entwines the French and Anglo-Saxon literary traditions as she journeys fluidly through her formative years. Julia Kerninon, one of France's most acclaimed young novelists, tells an altogether different story in a poetic account of her pursuit. ![]() 'The best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood,' Hemingway famously said. ![]() ![]()
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