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Oleander, Jacaranda - by Penelope Lively (Paperback)

Name: Oleander, Jacaranda - by Penelope Lively (Paperback)
Brand: Harper Perennial
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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".
Author(s): Penelope Lively
160 Pages
Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures

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Book Synopsis

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"

From the Back Cover

A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and plants of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other.

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"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)

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 7.96 Inches (H) x 5.31 Inches (W) x .38 Inches (D)

Weight: .35 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 160

Genre: Biography + Autobiography

Sub-Genre: Literary Figures

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Format: Paperback

Author: Penelope Lively

Language: English

Street Date: March 31, 1995

TCIN: 77247638

UPC: 9780060926229

Item Number (DPCI): 247-51-6414

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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