Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning review, recensie en informatie memoir uit 1969 van de Engelse schrijver. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de memoir over zijn vroege leven in Gloucestershire na de Eerste Wereldoorlog en in het vervolg verlaat Lee de veiligheid van Slad, zijn Cotswold-dorp, om op reis te gaan naar Spanje.
Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning review en recensie
- “He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour.” (Sunday Times)
- “There’s a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down.” (New Statesman)
As I Walked Out One Summer
- Auteur: Laurie Lee (Engeland)
- Soort boek: memoir uit 1969
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Omvang: 224 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 3,99 / £ 13,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de memoir uit 1969 van de Engelse schrijver Laurie Lee
“The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep’s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world.”
Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for ‘Will you please give me a glass of water?’, he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations.
Laurie Lee was born on 24 Juni 1914 in Stroud, Gloucestershire in Engeland. Hehas 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. He died on 13 May 1997 is Slad, Gloucestershire, aged 82. He published four collections of poems: The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poets (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).