Leaving Before the Rains Come - Softcover

Fuller, Alexandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784700592 ISBN 13: 9781784700591

Verlag: Vintage, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this frank, personal memoir, she charts their twenty years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the mountains of Wyoming - the new adventures, the unexplored paths, the insurmountable obstacles..., and the many signals that they missed along the way.

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Críticas:

"Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining... a compulsive read" (Observer)

"[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir" (Kate Figes Mail on Sunday)

"[An] urgent, eloquently fearless book" (Guardian)

"[A] bold, brave memoir of [Fuller’s] emancipation from the past" (The Times)

"Fuller doesn’t write misery memoirs. She writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, and Leaving Before the Rains Come is another must-read" (Sunday Express)

Reseña del editor:

The sequel to the bestselling Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

Born in England and uprooted to southern Africa as a toddler by her parents, Alexandra Fuller experienced a unique upbringing – both coloured with tragedy and joy – against the backdrop of the Rhodesian wars. Following her marriage to American Charlie Ross, she leaves Africa for Wyoming in the United States. This sequel to the bestselling Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight vividly captures the highs, lows and ultimate dissolution of Fuller’s twenty-year marriage and her unbreakable tie to her African past as she searches for explanations for the present and answers for the future.

Interlaced with stories from her childhood in Africa, Fuller paints a brilliant picture of an expatriate’s love for her homeland, a daughter’s acceptance of her father and the moving journey of her marriage and divorce. Poignant, candid and wistfully humorous, Leaving Before the Rains Come will resonate with anyone who has ever fallen out of love – with a person, idea or a place – and into self-acceptance and the belief that only we can save ourselves.

‘Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining... a compulsive read’ Observer

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784700592
• ISBN 13: 9781784700591
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272