Lively Penelope
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Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Lively Penelope
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008
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PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ
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This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Egypt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view, which is also, ultimately, a moving and rather sad picture of an isolated and lonely little girl.
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 zorkuzz
15 июля 2009
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Making it Up
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Penguin Group
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Автор: Lively Penelope
Издательство: Penguin Group, 2008
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PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ
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Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed you where you are, as the person that you are, and the whole process seems so precarious that you look back at those climatic moments when things might have gone differently, when life might have spun off in some other direction, and wonder at this apparently arbitrary outcome In this fascinating new piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks what if she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18? If she had married someone else? If she taken a different job? If she had lived her life abroad? In this highly original work, Penelope Lively examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path...
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26 мая 2011
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