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Author Name: Lively, Penelope
Title: Oleander, Jacaranda - A Childhood Perceived
Binding: Blue Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
Size: 8" x 5.3"
Publisher: London Viking 1994
ISBN Number: 0670854700 / 9780670854707
Seller ID: 003179
ix., 180pp., 23 b/w illus., Minor bumping to extremities. 'Using memories of her childhood among the privileged expatriate society of Egypt in the 1930s, Penelope Lively provides a slice of autobiography which is also an exploration of childhood perception. In snapshots of recollection, we build up a picture of her happy, self-absorbed early years in a familiar land of canals and palm-trees, mud-brick villages and water buffalo, under the ever-watchful and loving eye of her nanny, Lucy. Even World War II barely proved a disruption to an idyllic childhood which was shattered by adolescence and her parents' divorce. Penelope Lively's account of the childhood that has remained so vivid in her mind, and of the subsequent trauma when she was sent back to the "homeland" she had never regarded as home, stands as a poignant metaphor for all lost childhoods.' [53]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY EGYPT WW2 1930'S
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