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Description for The Holiday
Paperback. Beautiful..richly melancholy like those hot summer days when it is so full of that calm before the Autumn, it quite ravished me. When I read it, the tears stream down my face.' STEVIE SMITH Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 346 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb with her beloved Aunt. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love -- for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate -- moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith's poetic, special eye captured ... Read more
Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb with her beloved Aunt. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love -- for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate -- moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith's poetic, special eye captured ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
VMC
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844085392
SKU
V9781844085392
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Ref
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About Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith was born in Hull and educated in London. She was both a poet and a novelist. She died in 1971.
Reviews for The Holiday
Extraordinary handling of conversation always fascinating and recounted with a perfect ear...
GUARDIAN
Those who find them [Stevie Smith's novels] entrancing ... find themselves on a hook which won't let go
PUNCH
GUARDIAN
Those who find them [Stevie Smith's novels] entrancing ... find themselves on a hook which won't let go
PUNCH