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 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.

Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/31/1995
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.31w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9780060926229
ISBN10: 0060926228
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women