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The Mirabelle Pickers
Jacques Réda
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Description for The Mirabelle Pickers
Paperback. A translated memoir, in which the author chooses the height of the mirabelle season in Lorraine for a long-delayed visit to his home town, Luneville. It presents a series of impressions, encounters and musings that takes us from Friday Evening to Tuesday Morning, through a remembered topography that has largely shaped a lifetime's writing. Translator(s): Feldman, Jennie. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128. 96 pages. A translated memoir, in which the author chooses the height of the mirabelle season in Lorraine for a long-delayed visit to his home town, Luneville. It presents a series of impressions, encounters and musings that takes us from Friday Evening to Tuesday Morning, through a remembered topography that has largely shaped a lifetime's writing. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; BM. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight: 128. Translator(s): Feldman, Jennie.
Jacques Reda 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 ... Read more
Jacques Reda 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856464492
SKU
V9780856464492
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About Jacques Réda
Jacques Reda, born in Luneville in 1929, was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix in 1993 for a lifetime's work, and in 1999 the Bourse Goncourt de la Poesie. He was editor of the 'Nouvelle Revue Francaise' from 1987 to 1995. 'Treading Lightly: Selected Poems 1961-1975' translated by Jennie Feldman was published in 2005. He lives in Paris. Jennie ... Read more
Reviews for The Mirabelle Pickers
'He is indisputably one of the most invigorating French writers' - John Taylor, 'Paths to Contemporary French Literature'