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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 160
Utgivningsdatum: 2014-06-02
Förlag: The History Press Ltd
Illustrationer: 32 Plates, color; 45 Illustrations, color
Dimensioner: 234 x 158 x 19 mm
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ISBN: 9780750953764

A Thousand Laurie Lees

Name: A Thousand Laurie Lees
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Author: Adam Horovitz
ISBN: 9780750953764

The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley

av Adam Horovitz

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-06-02

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This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. It is about the spirit of the man and the spirit of a place. A Thousand Laurie Lees is a poetic reassessment of the Slad Valley, a memoir from a different age rooted in the same idyllic landscape that inspired Cider with Rosie. A year after Lees death in 1997, a handful of locals dressed up as him for an epic, drunken cycle ride right through the heart of Laurie Lee country. They called it The Night of a Thousand Laurie Lees and stopped off at all the pubs on the way, signing books, singing and carousing. Taking this as a starting point, poet Adam Horovitz reaches back through myth, memory and literature to explore Laurie Lees impact on the Slad Valley and its people. Lyrically evoking his own childhood there sixty years after Lee, he explores the connections between family, the valley and learning to write, and examines what has changed since Lees day and what remains the same.

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