A moving, never-before-published portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of _Cider With Rosie_ 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Le
The lost landscape: a writer's coming of age
β Scribed by Joyce Carol Oates
- Publisher
- Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 486 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062408690
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β¦ Synopsis
Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.
The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become.
In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a...
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