I am about 25% through the book and enjoying the beautiful language so far. I recently picked up his book
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia in Open Road Media's mega-sale of free books. That's what inspired me to nominate this book.
The Guardian had an interesting perspective in this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/19...1/robertmccrum
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When Cider With Rosie was eventually published, to astounding success in 1960, it was an autobiography notable for the fact that it stopped when its hero was 23, the year he left his native Gloucestershire. Laurie Lee was then 45. He would write nothing to match it ever again. In his prime he was known as a poet who had written a book, but in the end he would be known simply as a prose writer who had formerly written poems.
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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
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If the power of Cider With Rosie derives from its dream of dwelling, the power of As I Walked Out derives from its dream of leaving. If only I could live forever in one place, and come to know it so well, you think, reading Lee's first volume of memoir. If only I could step from my front door, walk away and just keep going, you think, reading his second.
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