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Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie; as I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; A Moment of War
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Spanning the first twenty-three years of his remarkable life, Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy is presented here in one delightful volume. Beginning with "Cider with Rosie", Laurie Lee writes evocatively of his idyllic childhood in the Cotswolds of the twenties, a world of rich sensuousness and native innocence. "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" picks up the story as he leaves his valley for London and then for Spain. There, equipped only with a violin and his wits, he crossed the dramatic landscape of a vibrant and still almost medieval Spain for which he developed an abiding affection. In the winter of 1937 he returned to a country now in the grip of Civil War and joined the International Brigade, describing in "A Moment of War" his journey into the dark side of Spain with unsparing honesty and poignancy.
ReviewsKirkus Review US:A fascinating trilogy. I love Cider with Rosie as an evocative description of the author's idyllic childhood in the Cotswolds in the 1920s. So many of his descriptions match my own thoughts of my childhood in Somerset. He follows it with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning again, an experience I like to think I had much in common with. Only, I must stress, in as far as I, like him, left the sleepy quiet of the countryside for the stress and bustle of London and went on later to Spain and other foreign climes. Our lives parted with the International Brigade of the Spanish Civil War in A Moment of War. Reviewed by Keith Floyd (Kirkus UK)
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