Cider with Rosie
by Laurie Lee | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140016821 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140016821 Global Overview for this book
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Lee's account of childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village.
Different cover art.
Synopsis:
"I remember, too, the light on the slopes, long shadows in tufts and hollows, with cattle, brilliant as painted china, treading their echoing shapes." Cider With Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, "thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers," he depicts a word that is both tangibly real yet belonging to a now distant past.
About the Author:
Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age on nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the Guardian wrote, "He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions."
One of the "1001 books you must read before you die."
Different cover art.
Synopsis:
"I remember, too, the light on the slopes, long shadows in tufts and hollows, with cattle, brilliant as painted china, treading their echoing shapes." Cider With Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, "thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers," he depicts a word that is both tangibly real yet belonging to a now distant past.
About the Author:
Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age on nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee died in May 1997. In its obituary the Guardian wrote, "He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precisions."
One of the "1001 books you must read before you die."
Making an attempt to clear the shelves a bit.
Sending to luv2readwa. Enjoy.
Sending to luv2readwa. Enjoy.
Journal Entry 3 by luv2readwa from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Wednesday, August 2, 2006
An old favourite- thanks crimsontide
