Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony,the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty,the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums,the cult of the bullfight,the exultation in death,the humour of hopelessness-the paradoxes deep in the fiery bones of Spain. Rich with kaleidoscopic images,A Rose for Winter is as sensual and evocative as the sun-scorched landscape of Andalusia itself.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099479710Number of pages: 128Weight: 96 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 7 mm
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He has a nightingale inside him,a capacity for sensuous,lyrical precisionOne of the great writers of the last century whose work conjured up a world of earthly warmth and beautyOut of a winter in Southern Spain,Mr Lee has spun a magnificent book,outstanding even in a field where the competition is oppressively brilliant'
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