Mere

by Linda Spalding, Esta Spalding, Linda Spalding, Esta; Spalding

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0002255383
• ISBN13: 9780002255387
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: HarperFlamingo Canada
• Length: 211 Pages

Customer Reviews

Full of insights about human relationships~

The story was told as a modern-day style of the Demeter and Persephone myth. The mother and daughter team of Linda and Esta Spalding, together creates a tale both mythic and contemporary; It is hard to succeed in narrating both themes so powerfully. Mere is an uncomprehending and uncivilized child seeking for independence from parental protection, while showing her desperate for her father, and living as complicated as the political plot of its time. From this book, I have earned an understanding of the political views of that time and also the culture of the 60s with the free sex and tremendous use of drugs, most of all, the desperate bid for peace. The mother and daughter relationship has created issues that I think, will be carry on from generations to generations without any changes; teenagers are always be desperate for independence while the mother was being protective and never consider the child is mature enough.