Come And Tell me Some Lies - Couverture souple

Barker, Raffaella

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140244484 ISBN 13 : 9780140244489

Editeur : Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

Raffaela Barker is the daughter of poet George Barker and novelist Elspeth Barker. This book is an account of her extraordinary childhood up to and including the death of her father. Lyrical, funny and honest, it tells of a father/daughter relationship, of a childhood spent in Bohemian poverty in rural Norfolk with four siblings and numerous step-siblings.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Gabriella has many siblings and more animals. Her father is an impoverished poet with a penchant for mending cars with string and optimism, her mother a classicist now more concerned with trying to keep track of spiralling chaotic family life than the declining of verbs.

Gabriella and her brothers run amuck through the attics and wilderness garden of their home, Mildney. Here she observes and experiences the triumphs and pitfalls of belonging to a wayward family, and longs for conformity. Her failure to achieve it is absolute.

Revue de presse

She writes beautifully... Combining, with apparent ease, emotion and admirable precision (Independent on Sunday)

The whole is suffused with love. To write well and with such open-hearted affection is an achievement (Observer)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140244484
• ISBN 13: 9780140244489
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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