That Shining Place

By Simone Poirier-Bures

Book Overview

This is a memoir of the time the author spent on the island of Crete as a young girl. It's a simple story, open and visual and full of the sights, sounds, and smells of the island. The young Simone is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778010171
• ISBN13: 9780778010173
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Oberon Pr
• Length: 93 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

That Shining Place dazzles!

I just loved this memoir! If you were young in the 1960s, you'll remember. If you are young now, you'll discover the twenty-somethings of 1966. Whether you ever, or never, climbed a rocky hillside in Greece, you'll delight in this sensuous evocation of Crete then and now. Convent-educated, the author danced and flirted. Then came suspicions of dark and scandalous pursuits. Bonus: a terrific afterword about memoir writing! (As a former English teacher, I think that this book would be ideal for class use at both college and high school levels.) That Shining Place is a 10!!