A Rose For Winter
Travels in Andalusia
$26.33
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2003
Summary
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive- the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness-the paradoxes deep in the fiery bones of Spain. Rich with kaleidoscopic images, A Rose for Winter is as sensual and evocati…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099479710 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099479710 |
| Author: | Laurie Lee |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 99g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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Critics Review
“He writes like an angel, and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness zest and humour.” –Sunday Times
He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision * Guardian *One of the great writers of the last century whose work conjured up a world of earthly warmth and beauty * Independent *Out of a winter in Southern Spain, Mr Lee has spun a magnificent book, outstanding even in a field where the competition is oppressively brilliant’ * New Statesman *
About The Author
Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. Laurie Lee died in May 1997.
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