A Shadow in Yucatan - Couverture souple

Rees, Philippa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0957500238 ISBN 13 : 9780957500235

Editeur : CollaborArt Books, 2014

Synopsis

A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat. An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind. Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had. The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Philippa's many lives have elements of fantasy fiction. Born in South Africa, fatherless before the age of two, she experienced the wildest parts of rural Africa in the care of her grandfather, on safari for weeks inspecting rural African schools with a cook, a tracker and a folding table. The other extreme was imprisonment in boarding schools studying the Metaphysical poets, Theology and the English Monarchy, and always hungry. These solitary extremes perhaps contributed to the need to reconcile the influences of two worlds, African liberty and European culture. Related to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, it is perhaps not surprising that she should arrive at a poetic narrative to achieve her reconciliations between story and the music of time. The 'leitmotif' of her writing is characterized by a celebration of the individual, often eccentric, always out of the mainstream. After sampling medicine, architecture, classics and fine art she ultimately achieved degrees in Zoology and Psychology. She has lived on (culturally) deserted islands in the Indian Ocean, fishing for supper; In Miami in love with an air-conditioner, at the Max Planck Institute in Bavaria; lectured to mature University students; designed buildings; single handedly built her home, an arts center and concert hall; raised four daughters, and failed to master the cello. Always reading and writing first. She lives in Somerset in her converted barns with an old collie and a long-suffering husband.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CollaborArt Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0957500238
• ISBN 13: 9780957500235
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 120
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