Author: Francine Prose Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062329030 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
“With a dazzling mix of directness and metaphor, Prose captures the centrifugal and isolating force of grief. . . . “[Goldengrove is] a moving meditation on how, out of the painful passing of innocence and youth, sexuality and identity can miraculously emerge.” — Los Angeles Times An emotionally powerful novel about adolescent love and loss from Francine Prose, the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man. After the sudden death of her beloved older sister, thirteen-year-old Nico finds her life on New England's idyllic Mirror Lake irrevocably altered. Left alone to grope toward understanding, she falls into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico faces that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them as she experiences the mystery of loss and recovery. Still, for all the darkness at its heart, Goldengrove is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of adolescence.
Author: Jill Paton Walsh Publisher: Sunburst ISBN: 9780374425876 Category : Adolescence Languages : en Pages : 130
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Expecting the usual carefree and happy summer with her cousin Paul at their grandmother's seaside home, Madge finds this summer to be different from all the others.
Author: Jill Paton Walsh Publisher: Corgi Books ISBN: 9780552996556 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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"Once a year cousins Madge and Paul visit Goldengrove, their grandmother's idyllic Cornish home. But one year as Summer turns to Autumn and as they are drawn from childhood to maturity, their seemingly indomitable grandmother turns to Winter, and the precious moments of innocence begin to be leached away... Years later Madge, now living at Goldengrove, reflects on her own grandchildren and the events and revelations which disturbed the tranquill idyll that was her childhood. With wisdom and understanding, Jill Paton Walsh creates memorable mood-music for the ebb and flow, calm and storm of changing lives and in so doing has formed a lasting tale of innocence and beauty. An extremely good story, marvellously told. As the story gathers momentum, the deeply understood characters, the golden atmosphere, the small change of everyday pleasures and ageless tragedies are all put over with such newly seen immediacy and such controlled mastery that the reader is carried along like a surf rider on the crest of a wave, knowing it must soon break' Times Literary Supplement 'Written with an intensity of feeling and care, with a Woolf-like awareness of the instant's sensation: a story
Author: Francine Prose
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Author: Taylor
Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Author: Jeremy TAYLOR (Bishop of Down and Connor, and of Dromore.)
Author: Jeremy Taylor![The Golden Grove ... The Four and Twentieth Edition. (A Guide for the Penitent. [By Brian Duppa.]). PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/cxVmAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Jeremy TAYLOR (Bishop of Down and Connor, and of Dromore.)
Author: Jeremy Taylor![The golden grove, a choice manual. To which is added A guide for the penitent [by B. Duppa], also festival hymns PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/_cQCAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.)