Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived

Title: Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
Author: Penelope Lively
Biography: 1703323
ISBN: 9780060926229
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 160
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.