Other people's countries : a journey into memory
McGuinness, Patrick2015
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Disarming, eloquent and illuminating, this meditation on place, time and memory, could only have been written by a poet, or a novelist, or a professor. Happily, Patrick McGuinness is all three, and 'Other People's Countries' is a piece of lyrical writing, rich in narrative and character - full of fresh ways of looking at how we grow up, how we start to make sense of the world. This book evolved out of stories the author told his children: stories about the Belgian border town of Bouillon, where his mother came from, and where he has been going three times a year since he was a child - first with his parents and now with his son and daughter.
Main title:
Other people's countries : a journey into memory / Patrick McGuinness.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2015.
Collation:
xv, 179 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2014.
ISBN:
9780099587033 (pbk)
Dewey class:
828.9208828.9208828.92 MACG
Local class:
828.9208
Language:
English
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BRN:
1101814
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