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Wild Olives: Life in Majorca With Robert Graves
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Description
In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father – the poet Robert Graves – had returned with his new family to the place he had lived with Laura Riding before the war.Young William grew up in the shadow of this great writer in the Englishness of the Graves household, while experiencing the ways of life of the Majorcans, which had hardly changed for hundreds of years.Wonderfully observant, and full of feeling for the locality, this book is also a fascinating portrait of Robert Graves himself, his ‘Muses’, and his entourage, and a revealing study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.191 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2001-8-2 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0712601163 |
| About The Author | William Graves is Robert Graves's son and Literary Executor. He still lives in Deya, but earns a living as a geologist consulting to the oil industry. He is married with two children. |
| Review Quote | An excellent short memoir, recalling the magic of his childhood on Majorca, but also showing how hard it is to live with such a father. |
| Other text | William Graves's forthright memoir not only gives a sharp account of Father's foibles but offers a fuller evocation of the swiftly changing scene at Deyá and Palma than in Robert's sketchy Majorca Observed. |
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