Oleander, Jacaranda : a childhood perceived : a memoir
Lively, Penelope , 1933-
Oleander, Jacaranda : a childhood perceived : a memoir / Penelope Lively - 1st ed - New York, NY : HarperCollins , c1994. - ix, 133 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Lively's memoir of living in Egypt as the daughter of an English civil servant, when England was only a far-off land that everyone spoke of with longing. She compares her memories to the places, people, and life she finds there now and, in so doing, treats the listener to a picture of a way of life largely vanished: children raised by servants in an English colony, contact with the locals mostly in their roles as domestics, and a child's view of life as an outsider in a land not her own. When she returns to England because of World War II, she has to comprehend that she is even more of an outsider there? This place where almost everyone she knew most wanted to be. Mitchell is able to convey the emotions of both the child and the teenaged Lively.
9780060171063
93039760
Lively, Penelope , 1933-
Novelists, English---Biography---20th century
British----History----Egypt----20th century
Egypt----Social life and customs
PR6062.I89 / Z47 1994
92 LIV
Oleander, Jacaranda : a childhood perceived : a memoir / Penelope Lively - 1st ed - New York, NY : HarperCollins , c1994. - ix, 133 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Lively's memoir of living in Egypt as the daughter of an English civil servant, when England was only a far-off land that everyone spoke of with longing. She compares her memories to the places, people, and life she finds there now and, in so doing, treats the listener to a picture of a way of life largely vanished: children raised by servants in an English colony, contact with the locals mostly in their roles as domestics, and a child's view of life as an outsider in a land not her own. When she returns to England because of World War II, she has to comprehend that she is even more of an outsider there? This place where almost everyone she knew most wanted to be. Mitchell is able to convey the emotions of both the child and the teenaged Lively.
9780060171063
93039760
Lively, Penelope , 1933-
Novelists, English---Biography---20th century
British----History----Egypt----20th century
Egypt----Social life and customs
PR6062.I89 / Z47 1994
92 LIV
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