Cider with Rosie

by Laurie Lee

Book Overview

I turned to look at Rosie. She was yellow and dusty with buttercups and seemed to be purring in the gloom; her hair was rich as a wild bee's nest and her eyes were full of stings. I did not know what... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B009908K6S
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Penguin
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lovely Book

I haven't read this story yet, but look forward to doing so. The book arrived as advertised and I was very happy to see all the wonderful illustrations in it. A lovely book indeed, and great service from the seller.

one of my favorite books

There should be more than five stars for books like this one. All the reviewers who wrote about how poetic yet concrete, magical yet real this account of boyhood in the Cotswolds have said it much better than I can. It is pure magic. I wish it was 20 times as long. You might also find this book under the title "The Edge of Day". If you loved "Cider With Rosie" you might also enjoy "Lark Rise to Candleford", "The Golden Evenings of Summer" and the movie "A Christmas Story".

Rooted in the fertile English Cotswolds of the 1920's

Rooted in the earth and shining with long gone summers and freezing winters this is a beautiful and poignant flower of a book. Written in a sensuous and lyrical poetic prose it tells the story of the authors's boyhood in the Cotswolds of the West of England. Spinning round the great orb of his clutter-minded and loving mother are his sisters and wider village life. There is Illness, murder, private sorrow, boiling summer and frozen winter and finally the running down of the feudal clock as long awaited change comes to the valley. A book, more even - a place to be visited again and again...

Exquisite language captures a rich world's slipping away

I was introduced to this book in a recent class taught by literati Doug Marx in Portland, Oregon. The book was the summit of 10 weeks' studying how to read good works to learn to write masterfully. Cider with Rosie was introduced as the penultimate example of the fusing of poetry, prose, nonfiction, and personal essay. Laurie Lee tells the tale of growing up in the last of the feudal villages in the post WWI Cotswolds. He paints with luxuriant language his single mother of seven, scatterbrained and cloudminded, his older doting sisters, a dottering squire, feuding spinster neighbors, seasons of pure hot and pure cold, whole village excursions by omnibus...all simple and quaint, but heartbreaking in their recent passing into history. Sensuous, breathtaking, heartstopping in its ability to pluck that which is familiar and delicious in the human experience. The poetry is Dylan Thomas made understandable. Recommend this book above almost any other.

LIVING, BREATHING ENGLISH LIFE DURING THE TURN OF CENTURY

THIS BOOK TAKES YOU INTO THE ENGLAND OF LONG AGO WHEN THE MODERN WORLD WAS FAST APPROACHING. ONE STARTS TO FEEL THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, IT IS SUCH A CHARMING BOOK FULL OF INNOCENCE, LOVE AND A GOOD CHILDHOOD FILLED WITH MAKING DO WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.