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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sandys, Elspeth (1940-....)
Titre(s) : Casting off [Texte imprimé] : a memoir / Elspeth Sandys
Publication : [Dunedin (Nouvelle-Zélande)] : Otago, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (203 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
At the end of the first volume of Elspeth Sandys' absorbing memoir, "What Lies Beneath",
an adult Elspeth has solved the riddle of her birth parents and begun to piece together
the events of her early life and find her place in the world. "Casting Off" begins
on the eve of Elspeth's first marriage. She and her husband will soon depart New Zealand
for England, joining a throng of Kiwis who chose to uproot themselves from their native
land. New attachments will be formed: new loves - of people; of places - will take
the place of the old. But the home country will continue to exercise a pull. Backgrounding
the personal story in this deeply satisfying memoir is the story of the Thatcher years
and the creeping virus of neo-liberalism, the sexual revolution of the sixties, the
beguiling world of books - reading and writing - and theatre. Elspeth Sandys' refreshing
honesty and her skill as a writer of fiction and drama propel the reader through an
absorbing life story that is equally a commentary on the meaning of memoir and the
peculiarities of memory
Sujet(s) : Sandys, Elspeth (1940-....)
Genre ou forme : Autobiographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780947522551. - ISBN 0947522557 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454558667
Notice n° :
FRBNF45455866
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
