Hilda Doolittle

The Gift: Novel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The connections and interconnections of past and presentthe realization that life is a whole continuously echoing back to the past and unfolding toward the futurewere sources of the strength, renewal, and joy celebrated in H.D.'s Trilogy and, in a differing, but no less real way, in The Gifther novelistic memoir of childhood.

In recapturing her memories of being a very little girl in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and later on a country place outside Philadelphia, H.D. "let the story tell itself or the child tell it." It is this voice or child's-eye view that lends The Gift its special charm as H.D. recreates the ordinary and extraordinary occasions of her early youth, the nightmares and delights. A road-company presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Christmas Eve with its particular family ritual, a family outing, a disturbing accidentthe happenings and incidents, perceptions and misconceptions with which a child's life is crowded are the substance of this most winning book. As she did for the H.D. novel HERmione, H.D.'s daughter, Perdita Schaffner, provides a fine introduction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811223584
• Artikelnr.: 59592722

Autorenporträt

A feminist icon as well as a major twentieth-century poet, H. D. (the pen name of Hilda Doolittle, 18861961) wrote several volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and was an exquisite translator of classical Greek drama.