Paperback / softback
Description
There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepool among the rocks on a Norfolk beach during the summer holidays.
A shadow begins to be cast over the children's innocent conversations and gaucherie, revealing their anxieties about themselves, and the constraints of their cosseted lives, as the outside world - of other children, dancing lessons, adults, illness, funerals, money, excursions in landaus, future schools - impinges in Eustace and Hilda's intimacies and fantasies.
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:03/04/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571203826
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:03/04/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571203826
