β Scribed by Manne, Anne
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
So This Is Life is a wonderfully evocative account of youth that will surely take its place among the classics of Australian childhood.
At age seven, after her parents' marriage broke down, Anne Manne travelled with her mother and sisters from Adelaide to the Central Victorian countryside to begin a new life. So This Is Life is not a conventional memoir but a haunting and luminous account told through stories--unexpected moments of epiphany--where meaning, suddenly and sometimes shockingly, reveals itself.
Possessing an astonishingly faithful and vivid memory of the pain, fear and joy of childhood; a sensibility keenly alive to the beauty of the landscape, the fellow-creatureliness of animals and the comedy, tragedy and dignity of the lives of the country folk she grew up among, So This Is Life shows a powerful moral vision being shaped, about the meaning of kindness, and the desolation of grief.
It depicts worlds as far apart as the...
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