Madeleine L'Engle: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

The Summer of the Great-Grandmother


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This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying.

In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone, clinging to the structures of daily life to ward off the chaos around us. How is it that the noisy, jostling, overwhelming metropolis leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In "Soft City", The Summer of the Great-Grandmother download book one of our most acclaimed novelists and travel writers seeks to find out. First published in the 1970s, his account is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city, more relevant to today's overcrowded planet than ever. 'A psychological handbook for urban survival' - "Sunday Telegraph". It's Christmas in LEGO(R) City! She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all. For generations they have died young. Now Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Their disease confines them to a lonely mansion on Dartmoor; their disease means they must die alone. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world. She dares to fall in love. And only then do they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse.


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Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 19 Feb 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780062545060
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