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008			110526s1994 nyuaf 000 0aeng
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020			_a9780060171063
050	0	0	_aPR6062.I89 _bZ47 1994
082	0	0	_a92 LIV
100	1		_aLively, Penelope _d, 1933-
245	1	0	_aOleander, Jacaranda _b: a childhood perceived : a memoir _c/ Penelope Lively
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York, NY _b: HarperCollins _c, c1994.
300			_aix, 133 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aLively'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.
600	1	0	_aLively, Penelope _d, 1933-
650		4	_aNovelists, English _y-20th century _x-Biography
650		0	_aBritish _z--Egypt _x--History _y--20th century
651		0	_aEgypt _x--Social life and customs
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