Overview
"Indisputably one of the most invigorating French writers."--John Taylor, Paths to Contemporary French Literature Jacques Réda chooses the height of the plum-picking season to revisit - on an old motorbike - his home town in Lorraine, north-eastern France. The fragrant allure of mirabelles introduces a colourful mix of old acquaintances renewed in these five days and vividly remembered places that have shaped a lifetime's writing. With its reflections, often whimsical, on the passing of the years, and its varied motifs - the plums, the provincial stillness, the toy soldiers of his childhood, 'the astonishing existence of others' first discovered as a love-struck schoolboy - this has few rivals as a portrayal of town life in la France profonde, written with tenderness and humour.
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- ISBN-13: 9780856464492
- ISBN-10: 085646449X
- Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
- Publish Date: June 2013
- Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.45 x 0.31 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
- Page Count: 96
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