Description: Further DetailsTitle: Divided LivesCondition: NewEAN: 9781844088911ISBN: 9781844088911Publisher: Virago Press LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/05/2015Item Height: 197mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 22mmItem Weight: 248gAuthor: Lyndall GordonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Dreams of a Mother and a DaughterISBN-10: 184408891XDescription: Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which `a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters'. Born to a mother whose mysterious illness confined her for years to life indoors, Lyndall was her secret sharer, a child who grew to know life through books, story-telling and her mother's own writings. It was an exciting, precious world, pure and rich in dreams and imagination - untainted by the demands of reality. But a daughter grows up. Despite her own inability to leave home for long, Lyndall's mother believed in migration, a belief that became almost a necessity once the horrors of apartheid gripped their country. Lyndall loves the rocks, the sea, the light of Cape Town, but, struggling to achieve a life approved by her mother, she tries and makes a failure of living in Israel and then, back once again in her beloved South Africa she marries and moves with her husband to New York. It's in America in 1968 when suddenly Lyndall realises she cannot be, and does not want to be, the woman, the daughter and the mother her mother wants her to be. This is a wonderfully layered memoir about the expectations of love and duty between mother and daughter. The particular time and place, the people and the situation are Lyndall's, but the division between generations, the pain and the joy of being a daughter are everywoman's.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Divided Lives
Publication Name: Divided Lives
Title: Divided Lives
EAN: 9781844088911
ISBN: 9781844088911
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 02/05/2015
Release Year: 2015
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 128mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 248g
Author: Lyndall Gordon
Language: English
Subtitle: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter
ISBN-10: 184408891X
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Biography
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
