Red Sky at Sunrise
Author | : Laurie Lee |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1993-10-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780141927374 |
ISBN-13 | : 0141927372 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.' 'This trilogy is a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long. For nineteen years this was the limit of my world, then one midsummer morning I left home and walked to London and down the blazing length of Spain during the innocent days of the early thirties. Never had I felt so fat with time, so free to go where I would. Then such indulgence was suddenly broken by the savage outbreak of the Civil War . . .' - Laurie Lee