Throughout her life my mother [Doris] lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up.In the tradition of Michael Ondaatjes Running in the Family and Carlos Eires Waiting for Snow in Havana comes Lorna Goodisons luminous memoir of her forebearsFrom Harvey River. When Doris English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his familys home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called home, the place where she was one of the fabulous Harvey girls and where the rich local bounty of the land went hand in hand with the Victorian niceties and comforts of her parents house. It is a place she will return to in dreams when her fortunes change, years later, and she and her husband, Marcus Goodison, relocate to hard life Kingston and encounter the harsh realities of urban living in close quarters as they raise their family of nine children.In lush prose, Lorna Goodison weaves memory and island lore to create a vivid, universally appealing tapestry.
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Lorna Goodison is an internationally recognized poet who has published eight books of poetry and two collections of short stories. In 1999 she received the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica, and her work has been widely translated and anthologized in major collections of contemporary poetry. Born in Jamaica, Goodison now teaches at the University of Michigan. She divides her time between Ann Arbor and Toronto.
Titel
From Harvey River
Untertitel
A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
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EAN
9780062292223
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E-Book (epub)
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Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
17.01.2024
Digitaler Kopierschutz
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1.13 MB
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306
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