A Place of Stones: The Story of a Childhood
Inbunden bok. Heinemann, London. 1:a uppl. 1958. 248 sidor.
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Språk: Engelska. Hardcover 205x140.
John Giscard's early days were spent in a lower-middle-class community of bungalows and villas near the stormswept sand-dunes of the Lancashire coast. The people, places and sensations round which the story of this child revolves range from the delightful and the charming to the tough and the sordid; the pounding sea at the bottom of the street; the kind, but rather distant, parents, uncles and aunts; the unexpected advent of schooldays, of the short-tempered teachers and the violence-seeking bullies; the effort of learning at the tip of a cane; the triumph of a hard-won victory over a rival gang; the dread departure every night to a bedroom peopled with shadows. All finally merge to give a brilliant portrait of a Lancashire childhood to which the background is the dimly perceive menace of the 1930s. Never has the complicated process of growing-up been more penetratingly and sincerely recalled than in A PLACE OF STONES.
