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S'està carregant… Private - Keep Out! (edició 1978)de Gwen Grant
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This was recommended as a very funny book. That is not at all what I took away. I guess I can see that it was meant to be humorous. It struck me very much as sad. And it’s partly autobiographical according to the afternotes. There is no affection in this family. Everyone treats Alice as troublesome, especially her mother. Just sad. ( ) A story about the youngest of six children growing up poor in a mining town. This book is a family favourite as my mum was the youngest of seven children growing up poor in a mining town. It is told in the first person, and doesn't really have much of a plot, just a series of episodic stories usually involving some subset of people falling out with each other. The snippets include learning to ride bikes, sledding under coal lorries, hating her dance teacher, putting up with her older sibings starting to date, and trips to the seaside. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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A forgotten classic brought back into print for the first time in decades - the missing literary sister to Anne of Green Gables and Tracy Beaker, a tough and spirited girl's adventures growing up in a northern post-war mining town. 'I told our Lucy I'm going to be a writer when I grow up and she said, 'You should be a good one then. You tell enough lies.' Psst! We know you shouldn't really read something labelled 'private' but this book is special. It's written by young girl growing up in a mining town in 1948 who is practising to become a writer when she grows up...possibly. It's hard work being a writer. There's no privacy in a house with six kids and there's no time, especially if you have to go to school and to dancing class (and wear frilly knickers) and Sunday school (and sing about being a sunbeam). You're supposed to write about what you know, which means this book is about annoying sisters with no sense of humour and brothers who think they know everything, and bullies and chicken spots and being run over. Sometimes you can write about good things that happen, like going to the seaside or Christmas Eve, but mostly the stories end with being sent to bed early in disgrace. But when the writer is a tough, spiky and funny as this one, her adventures will always be worth reading. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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