The Great Western Beach
The Great Western Beach is Emma Smith's wonderfully atmospheric memoir of a 1920s childhood in Newquay, Cornwall. She recalls the rocks, the sea, the beaches, the picnics, the teas and pasties, the bracing walks, the tennis tournaments and bathing parties, the curious residents and fascinating holiday-makers - relishing every glorious, salty detail. But above all this is a portrait of a family from the astonishingly clear-eyed perspective of a nine-year-old girl: her furious, frustrated father, perpetually on his way to becoming a world famous artist but suffering the indignity of being a lowly bank clerk; her beautiful, unperceptive mother,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7475-9661-5
- EAN: 9780747596615
- Produktnummer: 4459396
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.5 cm 310 g
- Abbildungen: Illustrations, ports.
- Gewicht: 310
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Emma Smith was born in Cornwall in 1923. During World War II she volunteered to work on the canals as a boatwoman. Later, these experiences would become the basis for her memoir Maidens' Trip, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 1946, Smith went to India with a team of documentary film-makers including Laurie Lee. She then moved to Paris and wrote the novel The Far Cry, based on her time in India. It became her second bestseller and was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1949. Susan Hill helped revive Emma Smith's career: she found a copy of The Far Cry in a jumble sale and wrote a piece for the Telegraph about it. The Far Cry was re-issued by Persephone Books in 2002 Emma Smith went on to write a further novel and numerous successful children's books. Since 1980 she has lived in Putney, London.
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