I enjoyed this book very much - so evocative!
Here is my Goodreads review of it.
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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
After I finish this book, I would like to continue on with his autobiographical series. I found this article which compares/contrasts his books to those of Leigh Fermor which the book club read a few years ago. It also makes this statement about the differences between his first and second books.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ert-macfarlane |
Very interesting. I'd also thought of Fermor when reading this and actually meant to include a comparison in my GR review but forgot in the heat of writing it, heh.
They both had a poetic bent of mind and it came through in their writing, and both wrote memoirs of English youth and boyhood that focus on a similar time (and both journeyed as inspiration, though Lee didn't until after this first book). The major difference being Fermor was of a higher class and Lee of a lower. I gave five stars to both and if I had to pick might prefer Fermor's more expansive view, but I think Lee probably came a longer way from where he began and made more of what he had.