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MEMORIES OF A JAMAICAN CHILDHOOD |
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by Rachel Manley
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Canada: Key Porter, September 2008
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| RACHEL MANLEY, GRANDDAUGHTER AND DAUGHTER OF TWO OF JAMAICA'S NATIONAL LEADERS, TELLS THE STORY OF THE BRILLIANT, ARTISTIC MANLEYS |
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| Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction |
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| "...Vividly, enchantingly described..." — THE TORONTO STAR |
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| "The biography of a time and place. Reading Drumblair is to revisit an old autograph book, to wonder at childhood perceptions, and to grow up in the midst of a romantic post-World War II curiosity." — AUSTIN CLARKE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL |
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| "A sensitive and invaluable memoir. Admirable in its reticence and accurate in its mood." — DEREK WALCOTT, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Poetry |
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| ".A brilliant portrait of an entire society's exciting anguished period of becoming, seen through the eyes of innocent childhood, turbulent adolescence and ripening maturity. What a feast!" — DR. REX NETTLEFORD, O.M., Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies |
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An insight into Jamaica's most prominent and glamorous political family - and the house that nurtured them: Drumblair. This is a world vividly recreated, and an intimate memoir of the people who changed Jamaica's intellectual, social and cultural landscape for all time. |
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(Photo: Cookie Kinkead)
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About Rachel Manley
Rachel Manley is the author of Horses in Her Hair, Slipstream and Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, which won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction in 1997. She has also published three books of poetry and edited Edna Manley: The Diaries, a collection of her grandmother’s journals. A former Bunting Fellow for Literature at Radcliffe College, Rachel is a faculty mentor for the MFA Creative Writing Program at Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and divides her time between Toronto and Jamaica. She has two sons, Drum and Luke.
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