Word: godden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really living, is it?" Joss speaking. She is 16, English, carefully brought up, and if she suspects that hockey isn't living she doesn't really know what is. This British adaptation of a 1958 novel (The Greengage Summer) by Rumer Godden describes, with delicacy, irony, passion, poignance, wisdom, melodrama, and all the charm and fragrance of a young girl's rising summer, how Joss begins to live, begins to love, begins to die among the greengage orchards of Champagne...
...SUSANNAH YORK, Alec Guinness' freckled daughter in Tunes of Glory, will certainly reach stardom on her own in Loss of Innocence, the film version of Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, which Columbia Pictures will release in the U.S. in the fall. With a trim, sylvan body, winter-sky-blue eyes and jonquil hair. 22-year-old Susannah is one of the few English girls who can seem equally natural nibbling strawberries in a May-fairy frock in The Players Restaurant at Wimbledon or sprinting eastward in a bikini on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Born...
...Stone (1)* √ 2. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (3) 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (2) √ 4. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (4) 5. Advise and Consent, Drury (9) √6. Midcentury, Dos Passos (5) √7. Winnie Ille Pu, Milne (6) 8. China Court, Godden (8) 9. Hawaii, Michener (7) √10. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward NONFICTION √ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) √2. The New English Bible (3) √3. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (2) 4. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks...
...China Court, Godden...
...China Court, Godden...