A House Unlocked

Summary

In A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change -- and of the family that changed with the times. As she charts the course of the domestic tensions of class and community among her relatives, she brings to life the effects of the horrors of the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust through portraits of the refugees who came to live with them. A fascinating, intimate social history of its times, A House Unlocked is an eloquent meditation on place and time, memory and history, and above all a tribute to the meaning of home.

Product details

• Authors: Penelope Lively, Lively Penelope
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2003
• EAN: 9780802140074
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4007-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 211 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Autobiography: literary, Judaism, Relating to religious groups, CULTURAL HERITAGE / British, Russian Revolution;Holocaust;social history, Penelope Lively