{"product_id":"journey-from-the-north-a-memoir-9781805330448","title":"Journey from the North: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the 20th century's finest memoirs of literary and political life, with an introduction by Vivian Gornick, who referred to the book as \"literary gold\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stops you in your tracks. I would like to persuade everyone to read it\" -- \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA compulsively readable, beautifully written account of a fascinating twentieth-century woman and life. This candid, affecting portrait of a woman who loathed domesticity explores how she sought to balance a literary career with political commitment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTowards the end of her life, the writer Storm Jameson began her memoir by asking, \"can I make sense of my life?\" This question propelled her through an extraordinary reckoning with how she had lived: her early years in Whitby, shadowed by her tempestuous, dissatisfied mother; an early, unhappy marriage and repeated flights from settled domesticity; a tenaciously pursued literary career, always dogged by a lack of money; and her lifelong political activism, including as the first female president of English PEN, helping refugees escape Nazi Germany. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a richly ironic, conversational voice, Jameson tells also of the great figures she knew and events she witnessed: encounters with H.G. Wells and Rose Macaulay, travels in Europe as fascism was rising and a 1945 trip to recently liberated Warsaw. Throughout, she casts an unsparing eye on her own motivations and psychology, providing a rigorously candid and lively portrait of her life and times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pushkin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805330448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Storm Jameson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44174069924021,"sku":"9781805330448","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_37f267d8-c506-45bc-8675-f44bd8302c82.jpg?v=1716300433","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/journey-from-the-north-a-memoir-9781805330448","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}