Once Upon a Hill Love in Troubled Times
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At the heart of Once Upon a Hillare the author's grandparents, Jack and Kate, whose sedate old age belies the turmoil of their early life together, and apart - they had to wait ten years to marry. For Glenn Patterson trying to make sense of this small-town life in a family dominated by a formidable matriarch becomes a detective story written against the reluctance of surviving family members to talk and the simple erosion of memory. It becomes, too, a revelation of how much his own life - not least his own mixed marriage - has been shaped by events decades before he was born.
So Once Upon a Hillis part memoir, part all-of-themoir. It is the story of what happens when history tries to squeeze itself into a town of ten thousand people, most of them related somewhere down the line. It is about the consequences of violence and the conditions required for love to survive.
It is a story of frailty, fortitude, and finally forgiveness.*
*With footnotes.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780747581604 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
Imprint: | Bloomsbury |
Pub date: | 01 Sep 2008 |
DEWEY: | 941.60820922 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 256 |
Weight: | 400g |
Height: | 216mm |
Width: | 135mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |