Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived - Softcover

Lively, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060926228 ISBN 13: 9780060926229

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1995

Synopsis

Oleander, Jacaranda Written by the celebrated, Booker Prize-winning author of "Moon Tiger", this eloquent and evocatively detailed memoir is "vivid . . . forthright and witty. . . . [Lively] turns her hand to autobiography with the same depth of feeling and meaning that characterizes her fiction".-- "New York Times Book Review"

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Product Description:

Written by the celebrated, Booker Prize-winning author of "Moon Tiger", this eloquent and evocatively detailed memoir is "vivid . . . forthright and witty. . . . [Lively] turns her hand to autobiography with the same depth of feeling and meaning that characterizes her fiction".-- "New York Times Book Review"

Review:

"Vivid . . . forthright and witty. . . . [Lively] turns her hand to autobiography with the same depth of feeling and meaning that characterizes her fiction."-- "New York Times Book Review""The vivid confusions of childhood and the shadings that come with retrospect are seemingly blended."-- Merle Rubin, "Wall Street Journal""A quite stunning mediation on the archaeology of memory and time's predations."-- "Kirkus Review" (starred review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0060926228
• ISBN 13: 9780060926229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160