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A beautifully written 1949 novel about a young girl's passage
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This 'savage comedy with a vicious streak' (Elizabeth Bowen in "The Tatler" in 1949) describes the 'second passage to India' of 'Teresa, whose elderly, willful father drags her off to spare her from the clutches of her mother...I can think of no writer, British or Indian, who has captured so vividly, with such intensity, the many intangibles of the Indian kaleidoscope; Emma Smith harnessed those intense impressions of her youth to give her story a quite extraordinary driving force' wrote Charles Allen in the "Spectator", going on to agree with Susan Hill in her Persephone Afterword that the book is 'a small masterpiece...beautifully shaped, evocative, moving and mature.' "The Far Cry" was Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4.
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- PublisherPersephone Books Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1903155231
- ISBN 13 9781903155233
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- Number of pages344
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. First Thus. This new copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. When she was 23 Emma Smith went to India with a documentary film unit that included Laurie Lee, who was employed by the Tea Board to write two scripts. On her return to England she published Maiden?s Trip, about her wartime life on a narrow-boat: then, ?financially solvent, I took up residence, alone with my typewriter, in a tiny room in the Hôtel de Tournon, Paris.? The result was The Far Cry. The Far Cry 'centres round Teresa aged fourteen' (Emma Smith told her original publisher) 'and her elderly father who, in his anxiety to keep her from his second wife, her mother, undertakes a formidable journey from England to his other daughter in the north of India. Teresa's feelings in the matter are not considered, or even discovered by her dominating parent. Himself in search of reassurance and love, he is blind to the same need existing beside him in Teresa.' The departure from England and the voyage out make up the first two sections of the book, and the trip across India by train the third; the fourth and fifth are about India and what happens there. The focus of the novel is on Teresa and her responses to the people she meets and to India itself; and her maturing from a child into a young girl, mirroring, perhaps, Emma Smith's own change from girl to woman while she was in India. This new edition has a new preface by the author and an afterword by Susan Hill. Ref NNN 7. Seller Inventory # 031994
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