Smoke in the Lanes - Reeve, Dominic

Dominic Reeve 

Smoke in the Lanes

Happiness and Hardship on the Road with the Gypsies in the 1950s

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Smoke in the Lanes

A vivid and charming memoir of Gypsy life in the 1950s

In the 1950s the Romany people lived on the brink of great change. In their bright wooden wagons they journeyed between horse-fairs and traditional stopping places - stoic, humorous and wild, often poverty-stricken but protective of their freedom - on the fringes of a society that was soon to close around them. Dominic Reeve describes his life among the Gypsies: the feuds and fairs, the joyful muddy squalor of an outdoor existence. He evokes an unforgettable cast of fireside characters - bold children, fierce matriarchs and dandyish villains in snap-brimmed hats - and tells of sharp deals done and rings run round country policemen, of love affairs, dances and open-air feasting. Smoke in the Lanes is the vivid, memorable and unsparing record of a disappeared world.

Produktinformation
  • Gewicht: 275g
  • ISBN-13: 9780349000039
  • ISBN-10: 0349000034
  • Best.Nr.: 33368031
The real deal ... a fascinating, unflinching portrait of the rich diversity of characters and traditions of the Romani life at a time when it was threatened as never before' Choice magazine 20111103
Dominic Reeve wrote Smoke in the Lanes, his first book, in 1958. Since then he has written four more books. He lives and works in a semi-nomadic style with his partner, Beshlie, an illustrator.
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