Ebook {Epub PDF} Oleander Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively

Compare book prices from over , booksellers. Find Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived () by Lively, Penelope. 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 /5(41). A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, "Oleander, Jacaranda" evokes the author' s unusual childhood growing 5/5(1).

Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived Penelope Lively was a child when her father was serving the British government in Egypt and Sudan just before WWII. She describes her life there largely through her more innocent eyes, adding only limited reflection from her adult point of view. It is beautifully written and tells us of a time and. Lively began reflecting back on her own life with Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived, the first in her trio of memoirs. The volume revisits her childhood in Egypt, summer vacations at the great Nile River seaport of Khartoum in the Sudan, and the deeply British way of life her parents and other expatriates forged in Africa—a way. Get this from a library! Oleander, Jacaranda: a childhood perceived. [Penelope Lively].

Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Oleander, Jacaranda.: 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 s and s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, "Oleander. Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived. 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 s and s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a.