It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from his ninetieth year, about a few of the people who have formed his own particular world.
Some were friends; some not; some more than friends. Some have had a profound effect; some only a passing one. Some you may know yourself; some you certainly won't. Some he now wonders if he ever really knew himself. The last of his subjects in this selection, and the longest and closest acquaintance of all, is his own body, a companion on life's road at least as idiosyncratic and puzzling as everyone and everything around it.
Among Others is a patchwork memoir of a lifetime's encounters. Truthful and loving, sometimes elegiac, sometimes comic, it is a celebration of the endlessly intriguing otherness of others.
- ISBN10 0571378609
- ISBN13 9780571378609
- Publish Date 13 April 2023 (first published 11 April 2023)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 July 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English