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Bezig met laden... The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Familydoor Selina Guinness
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 ... Early on in the book, a flashback to a girlhood moment by the fire cannot but evoke Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September, and there is something of Lois Farquar even about the adult Guinness: the niece of the house, caught between worlds, learning that politics are always personal. There is no way, however, around the irony of Guinness, from within an old Anglo-Irish estate, looking with distaste on the colonisation of a country by the builders and developers who consider themselves its new ascendancy. She does not deny this irony – but nor does she force it. Out of the complexities of attachment, and out of a knowledge, hard-won, of what true dereliction is, Guinness has written a remarkable book. Prijzen
Tibradden is a farmhouse in the Dublin mountains, where the city meets the country - or, in other words, where housing estates and golf courses encroach on lands grazed by sheep and cattle. When Selina Guinness and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with Selina's uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor, they had no idea what the coming years held for them- a crash course in farming, tense discussions with helicopter-borne property developers, human tragedy, and the challenge of dragging a quasi-feudal estate into the twenty-first century. The Crocodile by the Door tells this remarkable story. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Selina ended up taking on the (small, run-down) family estate in the foothills of the Dublin mountains, and combining the burdens of twenty-first century farming with her academic career and family. This is an extraordinary book about dealing with changes in family and society, beautifully written, lucidly and emotionally told, and with no punches pulled in her own self-examination of dealing with the intricacies of both family commitments and government bureaucracy, in the years of the inflation and bursting of the Irish property bubble. It's brilliant and you should all go and get it. (