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Cider with Rosie (Vintage classics) Book
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Foyles
‘She was an artist, a light-giver, and an original, and she never for a moment knew it.’ Laurie Lee’s deft but sublime summarisation of his mother tells you all you need to know about one of the great masters of our language. Lee’s account of his early childhood in a small, backwater country village in the Cotswold’s is a classic memoir of times past already on the wane and now gone beyond memory. This is a place of bare feet, untrammelled woods and quiet lanes untroubled by cars. Well-known and equally well-loved, echoes of Cider with Rosie exist everywhere from the cornflower skies in Grahame Swift’s Waterland and H.E. Bates’ lusty, rustic ‘Larkin’ books to adverts for Hovis bread. In some ways, Cider with Rosie is one of those books at risk of invisibility through sheer, apparent familiarity, but this month we invite you to drink deep from a fine work you always promised yourself you’d read. Part-memoir, part-sharp-sided polemic that is potentially darker than the bucolic idyll you might imagine, this is a work that continues to stand as one of the great novels of the last century. ‘Happily, the book has grown during its long intervals: not only between Lee’s post- first-world-war childhood and his writing about it in the late 1950s, but between both those times and now.’ - Jeremy Treglown, The Spectator
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Play
'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.
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BookDepository
Cider With Rosie : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099285663 : : 05 Sep 2002 : Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past.
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TheBookPeople
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past.
- 0099285665
- 9780099285663
- Laurie Lee
- 1 October 2002
- Vintage
- Paperback (Book)
- 240
- New edition
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Cider with Rosie£21.04
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