Cider with Rosie

LEE Laurie

ISBN 10: 1567923550 / ISBN 13: 9781567923551

Published by Nonparell Book, Boston, 2008

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Laurie LEE Cider with Rosie TB - in Englisch - Nonpareil Book, Boston - 212 Seiten - ISBN 9781567923551 - 2008 Lebensgeschichte im originalen Englisch Zustand: Leichter Leseknick im Buchrücken, Ecken und Kanten außen leicht bestossen, sonst sehr gut! Size: 14 x 21 Cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cider with Rosie
• Publisher: Nonparell Book, Boston
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567923550
• ISBN 13: 9781567923551
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Book Type: Buch
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fremdsprachliche Literatur

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Laurie Lee was an English memoirist, poet, novelist and screenwriter best known for his three autobiographical novels. Lee was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire and his novel that recounts his childhood, Cider with Rosie (1959), continues to be one of the most popular books in the UK. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935. A Moment of War (1991), is based on his experiences in Spain with the Republican International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.