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Wild Olives: Life in Majorca with Robert Graves

By William Graves

Book information

Publisher
Random House
Year
2008
ISBN
9781409046295, 9780712601160
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
368 kB (377233 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-12-30 23:31:02
Biography & Autobiography; Nature; Science; Nonfic

Description

In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family to the place he had lived with Laura Riding before the war. Young William grew up in the shadow of this great writer in the Englishness of the Graves household, while experiencing the ways of life of the Majorcans, which had hardly changed for hundreds of years. Wonderfully observant, and full of feeling for the locality, this book is also a fascinating portrait of Robert Graves himself, his 'Muses', and his entourage, and a revealing study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.

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