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A Rose for Winter (Vintage classics) (Paperback)

by Laurie Lee (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (2 Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099479710
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099479710
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42,120 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #7 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > L > Lee, Laurie
    #40 in  Books > Fiction > World > Spanish
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Sunday Times

‘He writes like an angel, and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour’


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‘He has a nightingale inside him, a capacity for sensuous, lyrical precision’
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4.0 out of 5 stars Vividly evocative, 10 Oct 2009
By Jeremy Walton (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Rose for Winter (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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The craft of writing, 10 Feb 2009
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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5.0 out of 5 stars A weel knownbook but still a good read, 15 Sep 2009
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This book has been on the library shelf for a long time but is still a good read
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