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| As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurie Lee
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 6850
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0140033181
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780140033182
ASIN: 0140033181
Publication Date: July 2, 1992
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| Customer Reviews:
 Another Lee Masterpiece October 22, 2007
If you enjoy descriptive writing that sucks you right into a novel then this is definitely a book to add to your list. Part bildungsroman - part historical, the novel follows the path of the young Laurie as he makes his way out into the world in search of fortune and life experience. I found the writing style timeless and the story itself fascinating and gripping. A very enjoyable read.
enjoyed this book lots but there is a whiff of the disingeneous June 10, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book a lot but like his other writings there is a whiff of the disingeneous about it, I don't know how much of it I can believe, it's often rather arch, for example he loves ending passages with a short sentence that leaves the reader wanting more explanation, more honesty - "what really happens next?" we are left asking... Most of the reviews here strike me as somewhat naive, they take him at his own words... eg "a 19 year old country boy" - He was in fact 20 or 21 when he left for Spain, he says he was 19 when he left Slad... He was hardly a country boy, he was a poet who had already had a least one poem published, he must therefore have been making inroads into literary London society, he was having an affair with a wealthy London woman... hardly the innocent country boy he half encourages us to believe he was. But at the end of the day he may be a phoney and much of what he claims happened may be baloney but it's a rattling good read, so in a sense who cares if he invented it 30 or 40 years later!
Glowing lyricism April 20, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Outstanding. Beautiful and evocative prose describing Lee's walk from Slad to London, where he worked on a pre-war building site for several months, and on to Spain where he wandered, busking until his violin fell apart because of the heat. Rich in the wonder and freedom that only the adolescent can truly feel.
an experience in reading, a window on life October 31, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read this book in the first half of the 1970's. I have often thought of it since and am delighted to have at last found the means to purchase a copy and read it all over again. I probably do not recall any of the text but 40 years later I still feel the way it touched me.
An earlier reviewer wrote "beware, it may make you get up and leave",. That's very true, I did ... what a book!
Simple and all the more beautiful for it. December 13, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I first read this book about 12 years ago and have read it every couple of years or so since, it is wonderful and really allows you to live the journey that Laurie Lee took all those years ago when the world was a very different place.
As a previous reviewer has stated there is no in depth analysis of what is happening at this important time in European history just a country boy commenting on what he saw and experienced.This is a wonderful book and one that I will read many more times yet..
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