Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Listen and read as much as you want
  • Over 400 000+ titles
  • Bestsellers in 10+ Indian languages
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe now
Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time

5 Ratings

3

Duration
7H 1min
Language
English
Format
Category

Biographies

"This is not quite a memoir. Rather, it is the view from old age. And a view of old age itself, this place at which we arrive with a certain surprise – ambushed, or so it can seem. One of the few advantages of age is that you can report on it with a certain authority; you are a native now, and know what goes on here." Taking in old age, the context of ones life and times, memory, reading and writing, and the identifying cargo of possessions – two ammonites, a cat, a pair of American ducks and a leaping fish sherd, amongst others – this is an elegant, moving and deeply enjoyable memoir by one of our most loved writers.

© 2014 Isis Publishing Ltd (Audiobook): 9781445032559

Release date

Audiobook: 1 March 2014

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. Life in the Garden Penelope Lively
  2. Blue Nights Joan Didion
  3. Sontag: Her Life and Work Benjamin Moser
  4. The Writing Life Annie Dillard
  5. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay
  6. The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking Olivia Laing
  7. Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay
  8. These Precious Days: Essays Ann Patchett
  9. Crying in H Mart: The Number One New York Times Bestseller Michelle Zauner
  10. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett
  11. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
  12. The Confession: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick Jessie Burton
  13. Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion
  14. The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial Maggie Nelson
  15. We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  16. Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm Isabella Tree
  17. The Book of Goose Yiyun Li
  18. Demon Copperhead: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver
  19. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Olivia Laing
  20. The Glass Hotel: The Haunting Novel from the Author of Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel
  21. Pachinko Min Jin Lee
  22. Trust: the dazzling twisty story of power, greed and love that begins in 1920s New York Hernan Diaz
  23. My Dark Vanessa: A Novel Kate Elizabeth Russell
  24. The Dutch House: A Novel Ann Patchett
  25. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
  26. Blonde Joyce Carol Oates
  27. A Room Of One's Own Virginia Woolf
  28. Against Interpretation, and Other Essays Susan Sontag
  29. Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) Rebecca Solnit
  30. The Knowledge Illusion: The myth of individual thought and the power of collective wisdom Philip Fernbach
  31. The Mercies Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  32. Possession A.S. Byatt
  33. It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art Lee Child
  34. Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng
  35. All The Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
  36. Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
  37. Exhalation Ted Chiang
  38. The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller
  39. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman
  40. Moon Tiger Penelope Lively
  41. Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  42. Still Life Sarah Winman
  43. Summerwater Sarah Moss
  44. The Sentence Louise Erdrich