Jennie Erdal (1951–2020)
Teoksen Ghosting: A Double Life tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Image credit: Jennie Erdal in 2013.
Tekijän teokset
La mystérieuse nuance de bleu 1 kappale
Associated Works
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Muut nimet
- Crawford, Jennifer Elizabeth Wilkie (birth name)
- Syntymäaika
- 1951-02-02
- Kuolinaika
- 2020-05-23
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Lochgelly, Scotland
- Asuinpaikat
- St Andrews, Scotland
Anstruther, Scotland - Koulutus
- Lochgelly West primary school
Beath high school
University of St Andrews (Russian and philosophy) - Ammatit
- writer
translator
ghostwriter (for Naim Attallah)
editor - Suhteet
- Attallah, Naim (ghostwriter for)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Miller prize (University of St Andrews prize for the most distinguished final year student)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Listat
Pants on fire (1)
Palkinnot
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Tilastot
- Teokset
- 4
- Also by
- 2
- Jäseniä
- 221
- Suosituimmuussija
- #101,335
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.8
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 6
- ISBN:t
- 19
- Kielet
- 4
About half way through the book (in 1994), Jennie is asked by Tiger to ghost write a romantic novel, then ghost write a further novel, a regular weekly newspaper column and magazine articles. This is interesting, as Jennie sets out the difficulties of ghost writing especially those arising from a woman ghost writing for a man, and her financial necessity for doing the work. However Jennie realises the moral ambiguity of her work, which she does touch on, but does not sufficiently analyse for me. This is the frustrating weakness of the memoir, with it having seemed clear sighted up until this point. She is honest, but it doesn’t feel like the whole truth. We also never understand quite why Tiger acts as he does, but then perhaps Jennie never quite works this out.
To end with an apposite quote:
Autobiography is unreliable. A lot of what we remember is designed to protect us from painful truths. As is a lot of what we forget, or choose to forget.… (lisätietoja)