A House of Children - Couverture souple

Cary, Joyce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811210081 ISBN 13 : 9780811210089

Editeur : New Directions, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Cary Joyce

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

“Whatever else you have been reading or thinking, it is difficult to believe that you will not find relief and dream the music of lost happiness in A House of Children.”
The Spectator

“This lovely book is a clear call to happiness.”
LP Hartley

“He has the greatest of all the novelist’s gifts. The English novel has again found a novelist who will preserve it in all its rightful glory.”
Sir Hugh Walpole

A semi-autobiographical tale, which draws upon Cary’s own upbringing to tell of a young boy’s holidays spent on the Donegal coast.

For six-year-old Evelyn Corner and his siblings, Dunamara is an enchanted place. A world away from England, school and duty, they can wander at will all summer long, roam in wild packs with village children, clamber and climb like squirrels, swim and dive like otters. Around them always, investing every moment with beauty and magic, is the miraculous, metallic weight of the sea.

Here is innocence and excitement. Here, above all, is anticipation. Only occasionally is there a hint of another life awaiting them, a life of adulthood, of responsibilities, perhaps even of disappointments...

Présentation de l'éditeur :

To some degree this is an autobiographical novel. In Joyce Cary's own words, 'This book began in fact, as it begins on the page, with recollections suddenly called up by a fuchsia with its characteristic movement, stiff and springy, in a brisk wind. I was taken back to Donegal where fuchsia is a hedge plant. From an English garden it took me not so much to memories as to actual sensations of childhood, and I noticed, not for the first time, that these sensations are not always very clearly related to the memories.' Dunamara is a gaunt house on the Donegal coast across the lough from Derry. It is a rugged, windswept setting, but for six-year-old Evelyn Corner, brought here each year for his holidays, it is an enchanted place. A world away from England, school and duty, Evelyn and his brothers, sisters and cousins, can wander at will all summer long. Around them always, investing every moment with beauty and magic, is the miraculous, metallic presence of the sea. Here is innocence and excitement. Only occasionally is there a hint of another life awaiting them, a presentiment of adulthood with its attendant responsibilities and disappointments. A House of Children was the winner of the 1942 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New Directions
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0811210081
• ISBN 13: 9780811210089
• Reliure: Broché