Chantemesle: A Normandy Childhood

By Robin Fedden

Book Overview

Chantemesle is a lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine. In this minutely observed landscape, where even the wind is a character in its own right, we meet blind Battouflet, the singing hermit of the hillside, solemn Clotilde, who lives in a ch teau in the heart of the forest and a dessicated and disturbing spinster, Mlle. Firman.

Robin Fedden writes with preternatural clarity, taking the reader with him into a long- forgotten, yet echoingly familiar world. When Fedden finds himself expelled from this realm by his emerging sexuality, he leaves us reeling with nostalgia for that timeless sense of the present that is the magic of childhood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907871925
• ISBN13: 9780907871927
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.6"