Maggie rainey smith (2 Ergebnisse)
- Softcover
Anbieter: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, NeuseelandBook Express (NZ)
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EUR 4,69
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 276 pages. Your history, Artemis, is full of female warriors. Artemis has the name of a goddess, but she has trouble living up to it. Instead she usually just runs away . She's running now . away from the married man she's been seeing, and the Gre ek community in New Zealand who think they know wha…t's best, and into the arms o f family in the Peloponnese that she's never met. She carries her mother's ashes and an ipod with recordings, which bit by bit tell the shocking story of what h appened to Artemis' grandmother during the Greek Civil War. Daughters of Messene is a story of a family of women - those who stayed in that broken but beautiful country, one who went to the ends of the earth to escape what she'd seen, and a nother who returned not knowing what it was she was looking for. A powerful thir d novel by Maggie Rainey-Smith.
- Softcover
Anbieter: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, NeuseelandBook Haven
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EUR 14,85
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Paperback. Zustand: New. "The characters in these poems are typists, returned servicemen, teachers, people without pretension but with their own colourful inner lives. The title poem 'Formica' is subtle yet so rich with imagery that it brings to mind a compressed Alice Munro story." - Fiona Kidman "Each poem in Formica tells a s…tory that grabs you with its pace, perception and delicious detail. Together, they offer a picture of an entire cohort of Kiwi women growing up in the 1950s and 60s. I love this book: so idiosyncratic, yet so nostalgic." - Rachel McAlpine Formica begins in 1950s Richmond with the author's family struggling in the aftermath of a war that took her father to Crete to fight and then Poland as a prisoner of war. At the Formica kitchen table, Maggie's mother is reciting poems while chopping the veggies for tea. Maggie listens while tying her boots for marching practice. Poems follow her as she makes her way in the world - working as a typist, doing her OE, becoming a wife, a mother and grandmother . An unsentimental writer of honesty and humour, Maggie nods to the lives of all women of her generation - too often defined by their fertility and kitchen appliances when there was fun and fulfilment to be had elsewhere. Not that Maggie doesn't adore her Kenwood mixer, but it lines up with abiding friendships, granddaughters, travel, sex and the joy of words.
