Word: rumer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIS HOUSE OF BREDE by Rumer Godden. 376 pages. Viking...
Fifty years ago, eight-year-old Rumer Godden began to write a novel. "Peggy," read one memorable sentence, "looked round and saw a tigiger and a loin roring...
...garden," protested Rumer's kibitzing nine-year-old sister Jon. "There wouldn't have been a tiger or a lion...
...doesn't matter," said Rumer. "This is writing...
...Godden sisters are now successful British novelists, and when Rumer (Black Narcissus, The River) and Jon (The Seven Islands, The Peacock) use India as a locale, reality still does not impinge on the writing. Seen through their eyes, the vast Asian subcontinent becomes a setting instead of a place, muddy rivers are transformed into revered waters, reeking slums smell of curry and spice, and lacerating poverty is unflinchingly accepted...