From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island - Lorna Goodison - Libros - HarperCollins - 9780061337567 - 3 de marzo de 2009
En caso de que portada y título no coincidan, el título será el correcto

Lorna Goodison
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island Reprint edition

Precio
$ 14,99
sin IVA

Pedido desde almacén remoto

Entrega prevista 23 de jun. - 13 de jul.

Nuestros clientes opinan:

Política de devolución de 14 días conforme a la legislación europea de protección de los consumidores
Mejor valorado en Trustpilot
Añadir a tu lista de deseos de iMusic

When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family's home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called home, the place where she was one of the "fabulous Harvey girls," and where the rich local bounty of Lucea yams, pimentos, and mangoes went hand in hand with the Victorian niceties of her parents' house. It is a place she will return to in dreams when her fortunes change, years later, and she and her husband, Marcus Goodison, relocate to "hard life" Kingston and encounter the harsh realities of urban living in close quarters.

In Lorna Goodison's luminous memoir of her forebears, we meet a cast of wonderfully drawn characters, including George O'Brian Wilson, the Irish patriarch of the family who marries a Guinea woman after coming to Jamaica in the mid-1800s; Doris's parents, Margaret and David, childhood sweethearts who become the first family of Harvey River; and Margaret and David's eight children.

In lush, vivid prose, textured with the cadences of Creole speech, Lorna Goodison weaves together memory and mythology to create a vivid tapestry. She takes us deep into the heart of a complete world to tell a universal story of family and the ties that bind us to the place we call home.

304 pages

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 3 de marzo de 2009
ISBN13 9780061337567
Editores HarperCollins
Páginas 304
Dimensiones 135 × 203 × 19 mm   ·   222 g
Lengua Inglés  

Mas por Lorna Goodison

Mostrar todo

Mere med samme udgiver

Ver todo de Lorna Goodison ( Ej. Paperback Book y Book )