Cider with Rosie: 15 (Nonpareil Books) - Softcover

Lee, Laurie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567923550 ISBN 13: 9781567923551

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"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

About the Author:

Laurie Lee was born in 1914 in Stroud, Gloucestershire. His most enduringly popular book Cider With Rosie was published in 1959, and was the first in an autobiographical trilogy that included As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) - which famously describes his walk to London and subsequent journey round Spain before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War - and A Moment of War (1991). His varied literary output also included four collections of poetry, a verse play for radio and travel writing. Laurie Lee married in 1950, and together with his wife had one child. He died in 1997.

About this edition

• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1567923550
• ISBN 13: 9781567923551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212