About Blady: A Pattern Out of Time

by Laurens van der Post

Book Overview

Sir Laurens, whose life has encompassed African expeditions and years as a Japanese POW, recalls events-some joyful, some tragic-and in so doing provides the framework for an exploration into the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688114121
• ISBN13: 9780688114121
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A View of Spain

Laurens van der Post gives us glimpses into various parts of his life, and finally bears down on the subject of the title of this book, a mare called Blady, spotted in a field by a young horsewoman of Argentine origins in Spain, purchased on the spot, and trained and ridden by her against against the greatest rider in all of Spain. Van der Post writes the story with great affection for the for the young woman and her mare. Many insights are given into the complex interrealtions and customs of the Spanish, none more interesting than Laurens' reflections on the meaning and symbolism of the bullfight.

Van der Post giving us a good part of himself

ABOUT BLADY is a touching book about life and death. It inspired this poem which I hope will suffice as a reveiw.HE DIED OF CANCER HE WAS 68 HE DIED OF CANCER HE WAS 36 HE DIED OF CANCER HE WAS 24LATTER RAINS come sparking on a comet's tail out of controlstrike a silent blow to grow in him out of sight coming in visionary midnight dreamsfrightening misunderstood meaning clear in afterthoughtafter ravaged body nears end of capability felt end of beingPain no pills can erase subdued by chords of Beethoven passages of MozartSunshine overshadowed by death clouds a peaceful finale echoes through stainglass windows to silence