My Animals and Other Family

Informationen zum Autor Julia Blackburn has written ten books of non-fiction, the most recent of which, Time Song , was shortlisted for the 2019 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize. Her family memoir The Three of Us won the 2009 J.R. Ackerley Award, and her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions , were both shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy. Klappentext Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar and the tropical fish, tortoises, chickens, guinea pigs, foxes, pigs, and two dogs. This book recalls the animals in the authors' life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. Zusammenfassung Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar and the tropical fish, tortoises, chickens, guinea pigs, foxes, pigs, and two dogs. This book recalls the animals in the authors' life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Blackburn, Blackburn Julia
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780224082341
• ISBN: 978-0-224-08234-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 186 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, Domestic animals and pets, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary