Author

Publication

1999 - Steerforth Press, South Royalton, Vt, Vermont

Language

English

Word Count

79,750 words, Guess

Page Count

319 pages

Identifiers

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 awaySteerforth Press1999

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