Folio Society Published Works Number 3268
Lee, Laurie - Cider with Rosie
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Lee, Laurie - Cider with Rosie (Published in by The Folio Society in 2016. Bound in blocked cloth with ribbon marker. Set in Abertina with Akzidenz Grotesk for display. 256 pages. Frontispiece and 27 black & white integrated illustrations. Published with no slipcase. 9" x 5.75". Laurie Lee's charming memoir of a Cotswold childhood is presented here with John Ward's illustrations from the first edition. Cider with Rosie is a magical account of growing up in a Cotswold village during and immediately after the First World War. With a poet's quiet alchemy Laurie Lee conjures up a world of carthorses and candlelight. Amongst the stories we meet family heroes, such as Lee's uncles with their colourful tales from the wider world, and alarming local outlaws like Cabbage-Stump Charlie, who sets out each evening, armed with a cabbage stalk, to strike down the first man he sees. Above all, in a wry, grateful and profoundly moving portrait, there is Lee's mother, with her indestructible gaiety, her awe of the gentry and her unceasing, unspoken longing for her husband's return – not to mention her difficulties with riding a bicycle: 'She had to be launched on her way by running parties of villagers; and to stop she rode into a hedge...' )
