“What did I get from Simon? An education – the thing my parents always wanted me to have.” Simon was an older man who seduced Lynn Barber when she was sixteen, introduced her to a lot of very unsavory characters and scenes, and ultimately screwed her over mightily. She tells that story, along with details about her childhood, in the opening chapter of her memoir: An Education. It was fascinating — what Simon told her and showed her about a world she’d never encountered; how wholly […]
an Education
I saw the film An Education back when it was nominated for the 2010 Oscars; the book was a very quick, enjoyable read. I didn’t realize when I started reading that the film was based on an article Barber wrote not the memoir. The movie actually only covers the first 40 or 50 pages of the book. So the story anyone who knows the movie is that: Lynn Barber began an affair with a much older (con)man named Simon when she was sixteen. The experience […]