My home is far away
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Author
Publication
1999 - Steerforth Press, South Royalton, Vt, Vermont
Language
English
Word Count
79,750 words, Guess
Page Count
319 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL20701404M
- ISBN-101883642434
- OCLC Control Number43760074
- OCLC Control Number32778614
- OCLC Control Numbermyhomeisfaraway0000powe
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95032328
- LibraryThing117936
- Goodreads369037
Classifications
- LCCPS3531.O936M9 1995
- DDC813/.54
Description
One of the permanent masterpieces of childhood, comparable with David Copperfield, What Maisie Knew and the early reminiscences of Colette" (New York Times Book Review). In this family chronicle set at the turn of the century, and the most autobiographical of Powell's novels, young Marcia Willard's family struggles to keep up with the changing times and Marcia endures disillusionment and cruelty to forge a survivor's sense of independence.
First Sentence
THIS WAS THE MONTH of cherries and peaches, of green apples beyond the grape arbor, of little dandelion ghosts in the grass, of sour grass and four-leaf clovers, of still dry heat holding the smell of nasturtiums and dying lilacs.
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction.
Other Editions
- My home is far away
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