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Lädt ... Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoirvon Alan Garner
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Excellent book encourages every reader to revisit and re-own their own childhood. ( ) Alan Garner's connections back in time are very strong - to be able to refer so easily to his grandad's grandad, and the houses and traces still visible in the surroundings as he grew up are an astonishing moment in time. That sort of past connection is unusual for a family without great wealth or property. For most families current pressures would gradually break ties to the past. But for Alan Garner he seems to have grasped early on how rich a local history he had and how important it was to capture and deepen it. I finished the book wondering how his memories of childhood could still be so sharp - but of course he has been cherishing and using those memories all his life. Not a great memoir, but a fine contribution to local history and part of his life's work, and a fitting record for all those local people named in the book. The author Alan Garner recalls his childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge in the 1930's and 40's. The young Alan is a studious child who suffered long bouts of illness, but also had the freedom to roam that children today don't have. A short book very much told from the point of view of a child rather than that of an adult looking back, and one which captures beautifully the often mystifying workings of a young child's brain: 'Next to the air-raid shelter there was a great clump of nettles. Roman nettles, purple-stemmed, the worst. My favourite book as a child was Alan Garner's [The Weirdstone of Brisingamen] and it was fascinating to see that very many of the locations from that book were real locations where the author had played as a child. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb's boom, and two big explosions." David's father came back from Burma and didn't eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was fat and short and he shouted, and his neck was as wide as his head. He was a bully, though he didn't take any notice of me.' In Where Shall We Run To?, Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as 'a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. From one of our greatest living writers, it is a remarkable and evocative memoir of a vanished England. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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