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Gifts & Sorrows

Raphaëlle Pomian

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Description:French author Raphaëlle Pomian’s Gifts & Sorrows [Don et Miseres] is a delightful and slightly anguished collection about girls. Each story has as its title the name of its young hero. They are arranged in ascending order of age, so we gain the subtle impression of watching the general growth of a girl in France in the late 1960s. These bittersweet stories bring to life both school and home life, particularly the troubled relationships between the girls and their mothers and siblings. They are poignant tales to appeal to adults and adolescents.Gifts & Sorrows, translated by the author and Graham Henderson, was written during the author’s stay in Australia. She describes that exile and the making of the collection in an Afterword written especially for this edition.Gifts & Sorrows has compassion and perfect formal architecture, like Katherine Mansfield’s stories.Graham HendersonWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gifts & Sorrows. To get started finding Gifts & Sorrows, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 93

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 1996

ISBN: 1876044047

Description: French author Raphaëlle Pomian’s Gifts & Sorrows [Don et Miseres] is a delightful and slightly anguished collection about girls. Each story has as its title the name of its young hero. They are arranged in ascending order of age, so we gain the subtle impression of watching the general growth of a girl in France in the late 1960s. These bittersweet stories bring to life both school and home life, particularly the troubled relationships between the girls and their mothers and siblings. They are poignant tales to appeal to adults and adolescents.Gifts & Sorrows, translated by the author and Graham Henderson, was written during the author’s stay in Australia. She describes that exile and the making of the collection in an Afterword written especially for this edition.Gifts & Sorrows has compassion and perfect formal architecture, like Katherine Mansfield’s stories.Graham HendersonWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gifts & Sorrows. To get started finding Gifts & Sorrows, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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