Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780060926229)

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
ISBN-10: 0060926228
ISBN-13: 9780060926229
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 03/31/1995
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.31w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/23/1995 pg. 20