ISBN: 0552146633
ISBN13: 9780552146630
The Common Years
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ISBN: 0552146633
ISBN13: 9780552146630
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A read copy that remains in clean condition.
Formats
Conditions
A read copy that remains in clean condition.
Book Overview
During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the changing seasons and writing about her encounters with dogs and humans. The book is a distillation of those diaries: an affectionate and enthralling portrait - warts and all - of life on Putney Common. Never has Jilly Cooper written more lyrically about flowers, trees, birds and the natural world; more tellingly about the sorrows - as well as the joys - of caring for dogs and children; or more outrageously about the gossip, illicit romances and jealousies of life in a small community. This description may be from another edition of this product.
- Format:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 0552146633
- ISBN13:
- 9780552146630
- Release Date:
- July 1999
- Publisher:
- Corgi Books
- Length:
- 320 Pages
- Weight:
- 0.44 lbs.
- Dimensions:
- 7.0″ × 0.8″ × 4.2″
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Customer Reviews
The Common Years by Jilly Cooper
This is a wonderful diary/book! It brought back many memories for me. A very touching as well as funny book
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Life in microcosm
I had never heard of this book, originally published in 1984, and didn't know what to expect. It begins, straightforwardly enough, as diary of dogwalks and notes on local flora. But somewhere along the line, the story spins out into drama, as unpredictable as only a diary can be. Apart from the soap opera of local lives, the clash between the beauty of the common and the dark society that inhabits it is a theme that all city park-goers have to face. A caveat to dog-lovers: dogs get hurt and die in the course of this book, and some of it is hard to read. In the end, though, I was left with a story that will be turning over in my mind for many years.
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