- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (30 Sep 1971)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014003319X
- ISBN-13: 978-0140033199
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.8 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 448,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"He writes like an angel, and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness zest and humour." -- "Sunday Times"
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‘He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision’
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This little book describes the Andalucian journey Laurie Lee made with his wife Kati in winter of 1951-2. Published in 1955, it was his first book (not counting some earlier collections of verse), predating Cider with Rosie, his best-known work, by four years. He was to write about his Spanish travels again in his following book As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), although that deals with an earlier journey. Comparing the two, the present book could be viewed as a more straightforward travelogue, presenting vividly evocative pictures of a handful of towns, the landscape and the people who live there.
I took this along to reread on a trip to Andalucia last week, and was very pleased I'd remembered to do so: to be able to, for example, read about how (p34) "Seville remains, favoured and sensual, exuding from the banks of its golden river a miasma of perpetual excitement" whilst sitting on the bus headed for that fair city created a tangible sense of expectation that was more than met by the experience of seeing Seville for the first time.
I took this along to reread on a trip to Andalucia last week, and was very pleased I'd remembered to do so: to be able to, for example, read about how (p34) "Seville remains, favoured and sensual, exuding from the banks of its golden river a miasma of perpetual excitement" whilst sitting on the bus headed for that fair city created a tangible sense of expectation that was more than met by the experience of seeing Seville for the first time.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Although one of Lee's lesser known books it is a fascinating account of his return to Andalucia in early 1950s with his wife. He reminisces about his first stay in Spain and sees for him self what has changed during the intervening years in post civil war Spain. With his unique writing style, he magically transports the reader into the scene with his beautifully described images taking us on his journey throughout the province savouring the sights and smells alongside him. He is met with warmth and hospitality from the locals, many of whom are barely above the poverty line. His strong pounds went a long way in this Spanish era as he revisits the sites where he spent time in his youth. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Not the best of Lee's work, but nonetheless an outstanding example, like all his work, of what the craft of writing, of poetic description in prose, is all about and a unique insight of Civil War Spain.
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