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Mermaid Singing (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Mermaid Singing (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Loot Price R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
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In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston
left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny
island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and
focus on their writing, away from the noise of the big city. The
result is two of Charmian Clift's best known and most loved books,
the memoirs Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus. Mermaid Singing
relays the culture shock and the sheer delight of their first year
on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an
evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of
traditional life, long before backpackers and mass tourism
descended. On Hydra, featured in the companion volume, Peel Me a
Lotus, Clift and Johnston became the centre of an informal
community of artists and writers including the then unknown Leonard
Cohen who lodged with them, and his future girlfriend Marianne
Ihlen.
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