Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060926229ISBN-10:60926228UPC:9780060926229Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Personal Memoirs, WomenSize:7.96 x 5.31 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCDP8V6J4A
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 planets 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. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060926229ISBN-10:60926228UPC:9780060926229Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Personal Memoirs, WomenSize:7.96 x 5.31 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCDP8V6J4A
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Penelope Lively was born in 1933 in Cairo and spent her childhood there, moving to England in the last year of World War II. She has written many prizewinning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children, including the novel Moon Tiger, which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in England in 1987, and most recently Heat Wave. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.
Penelope Lively was born in 1933 in Cairo and spent her childhood there, moving to England in the last year of World War II. She has written many prizewinning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children, including the novel Moon Tiger, which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in England in 1987, and most recently Heat Wave. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.
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