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Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGodine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-101567923550
ISBN-139781567923551
eBay Product ID (ePID)64345360
Product Key Features
Book TitleCider with Rosie
Number of Pages212 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Literary, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year2008
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorLaurie Lee
Book SeriesNonpareil Bks.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-000717
Reviews"One of the great writers of the twentieth century." --"Independent ""An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, but also to an England that has vanished." --JB Priestly "Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared. It sings in the memory" --"Sunday Times" "It has got... a marvellous morning freshness...There is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the sense of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, tingling" --"Daily Mail" "He had a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision" --"Guardian" "Lee was a poet whose deft passage into prose carried with it much of the rhythm and accuracy of the poet's language" --Mignon Khargie, Art Director of Salon, Praise for Cider with Rosie "A remarkable book written with such dazzling verbal imagery and such relish in all thesensations of being alive that it is magically contagious." -- New York Times "Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as whenit first appeared. It sings in the memory." -- The Sunday London Times
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240511
Series Volume Number15
Dewey Decimal821/.914 B
SynopsisOne of eight children, Laurie Lee was born in 1914 in Slad, Gloucestershire, in what was then a remote corner of the Cotswold Valley. The large family was miraculously brought up by a single mother, and as the second youngest brother surrounded by doting sisters, Lee experienced life with a raw intensity and innocence that is magically conveyed in a lush, expressive prose that provides the child's side of the journey into adulthood. Cider With Rosie opens with Lee as a baby, and it closes with him experiencing his first kiss. In the interim, he takes in the cadence of village and family life while suffering all the agonies and awkwardness of adolescence. This beautiful memoir narrates this sense of both his lost youth, and the passage from innocence to experience with a lyricism that is poignant and powerful. This book (first published in 1959) is now an acclaimed and beloved classic, selling more than six million copies worldwide. Book jacket., At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a world that is tangibly real and yet reminiscent of a now distant past. In this idyllic pastoral setting, unencumbered by the callous father who so quickly abandoned his family responsibilities, Laurie's adoring mother becomes the centre of his world as she struggles to raise a growing family against the backdrop of the Great War. The sophisticated adult author's retrospective commentary on events is endearingly juxtaposed with that of the innocent, spotty youth, permanently prone to tears and self-absorption. Rosie's identity from the novel Cider with Rosie was kept secret for 25 years. She was Rose Buckland, Lee's cousin by marriage., The wonderfully charming and poignant memoir of youth in a rural English village--and a fatherless family--set against the backdrop of the Great War. Cider with Rosie is the classic memoir of growing up in a remote Gloucestershire village, a world that Laurie Lee makes tangibly real even as it's now in a distant past. Abandoned by her husband, Laurie's adoring mother becomes the center of his world as she struggles to raise a family on her own. The center of his world, that is, until he meets someone very special... I turned to look at Rosie. She was yellow and dusty with buttercups and seemed to be purring in the gloom; her hair was rich as a wild bee's nest and her eyes were full of stings. I did not know what to do about her, nor did I know what not to do. She looked smooth and precious, a thing of unplumbable mysteries, and perilous as quicksand. The sophisticated adult author's retrospective commentary on events is endearingly juxtaposed with that of the innocent, spotty youth, permanently prone to tears and self-absorption. Cider with Rosie became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1959, selling over six million copies in the UK alone, and continues to be read all over the world.
LC Classification NumberPR6023.E285Z513 2008
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- 14 Jun, 2024
Lovely book everyone should read if you plan on visiting The Cotswolds.
Lovely book everyone should read if you plan on visiting The Cotswolds.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
