Cider with Rosie - (Nonpareil Book) by Laurie Lee (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The wonderfully charming and poignant memoir of youth in a rural English village--and a fatherless family--set against the backdrop of the Great War.</b> <p/><b><i>Cider with Rosie</b></i> is the classic memoir of growing up in a remote Gloucestershire village, a world that Laurie Lee makes tangibly real even as it's now in a distant past. Abandoned by her husband, Laurie's adoring mother becomes the center of his world as she struggles to raise a family on her own. The center of his world, that is, until he meets someone very special... <p/><i>I turned to look at Rosie. She was yellow and dusty with buttercups and seemed to be purring in the gloom; her hair was rich as a wild bee's nest and her eyes were full of stings. I did not know what to do about her, nor did I know what not to do. She looked smooth and precious, a thing of unplumbable mysteries, and perilous as quicksand.</i> <p/>The sophisticated adult author's retrospective commentary on events is endearingly juxtaposed with that of the innocent, spotty youth, permanently prone to tears and self-absorption. <b><i>Cider with Rosie</b></i> became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1959, selling over six million copies in the UK alone, and continues to be read all over the world.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"One of the great writers of the twentieth century."<BR>--"Independent <BR>""An enchanting book, an exquisite farewell, not only to childhood, and boyhood, <BR>but also to an England that has vanished."<BR>--JB Priestly <BR>"Remains as fresh and full of joy and gratitude for youth and its sensations as when it first appeared.<BR>It sings in the memory"<BR>--"Sunday Times" <BR>"It has got... a marvellous morning freshness...There is hardly a sentence in it that does not set the sense of touch and smell, as well as sight and hearing, tingling"<BR>--"Daily Mail" <BR>"He had a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision"<BR>--"Guardian" <BR>"Lee was a poet whose deft passage into prose carried with it much of the rhythm and accuracy of the poet's language"<BR>--Mignon Khargie, Art Director of Salon<br>
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