Down in the Valley
A Writer's Landscape
$22.55
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2021
Summary
From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee’s world.
“Living in our valley was like broad beans in a pod, so snug and enclosed and protective.”
Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood village one summer morning to travel the world, but he was always drawn back to his beloved Slad Valley, eventually returning to make it his home.
In this never-before-published portrait of his Cotswold home, Laurie Lee gu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241411698 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241411696 |
| Author: | Laurie Lee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
It is a fine thing to revisit this writer’s landscape and hear his amiable voice in it again. – Michael Caines * Times Literary Supplement *
Down in the Valley is truly evocative of time and place. A beautiful illustration of how, in some way, we are all indelibly influenced by the landscape of our childhood. – Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path
About The Author
Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War.
Laurie Lee published four collections of poems- The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poems (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can’t Stay Long (1975), and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography- Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991).
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