In the Blood A Memoir of my Childhood
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- Hardcover ausgewählt
- Taschenbuch
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 31.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
September 2006
Verlag
Faber & FaberSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
3.4/14.4/22.4 cm
Gewicht
464 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-571-22803-4
In the Blood is Andrew Motion´s beautifully written memoir of growing up in post-war England - an unforgettable evocation of family life, school life and country life. It also tells the story of how these worlds are shattered, when his mother suffers a terrible riding accident.
The tragedy shadows the book, feeding its mood of elegy as well as its celebratory vigilance. Written from a teenage child´s point of view, without the benefit of adult hindsight, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshness of memory. We encounter a strange but beguiling extended family, a profound love of the natural world, a troubled schooling, and a growing passion for books and writing.
By turns funny and elegiac, In the Blood is a wonderful picture of a vanishing England, a remarkable insight into a poet´s mind, and a deeply moving portrait of the bond between a mother and her son.
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