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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurie Lee
Creator: Leonard Rosoman
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 1041
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0140033181
Dewey Decimal Number: 921
EAN: 9780140033182
ASIN: 0140033181
Publication Date: May 31, 1973
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 A forgotten style July 24, 2008
A style of writing that we dont see much these days. So much description that you almost feel heady. The warmth of the sun and the total atmosphere of old Spain were almost tangible.
A very relaxed writing by a young man with a zest for life and discovery.
Also a great book for anyone studying the Spanish civil war and the mood of the country beforehand,not from the politician's and historian's point of view,but an ordinary person's.
One of those books I would read again just for the descriptive narrative.
'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning' May 15, 2008
I first read this book in 1970 and just like one reviewer said,'Beware though as this book may make you want to give it all up and set off with your knapsack', well I did just that. In 1973/74 I travelled through 'Laurie Lee's Spain and it was just as I imagined it would be. This book for me evoked the essence of Spain of that time. Lee is an excellent writer, not only of novels but of poetry. I have re-read it many time since and it still evokes those feelings of wanting to go and explore. I'm thankful that I did do just that.
 An odd little book December 31, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I managed to finish reading this the second time I picked it up. It was a case of putting it to rest, or else, sometime in the future I'd feel compelled to try again - and then, maybe I'd have to start from scratch. And I haven't got the energy to do that again.
While I enjoyed the honeyed recollections of 'Cider with Rosie', 'As I walked..." is by far a more difficult read. For a start it's oddly balanced. Why - I wonder - bother with the time spent travelling to and staying in London, when the pertinent focus of the book is his time spent in Spain? The end is a terrible cliff-hanger, which I suppose would encourage the interested reader to pick up the next installment 'A Moment of War'. Not me, I'm afraid.
In comparison with the rosy recollections of his childhood in Slad, Lee's vision of Spain is on a par with Dante's Hell. Everywhere is in a state of physical decay and moral decline. Throughout his journey he accepts the generosity of impoverished folks across the country, but shows little gratitude or appreciation on the printed page for this quality in the Spanish people. He appears quite dispassionate about what he sees. I find the claim that he mastered a fluency in Spanish after only a short time into his year-long journey, little short of a miracle. I understand there is a controversial idea that Lee did not, in fact, do all that he said he did, which includes his alleged later involvement in fighting Fascists in the Civil War. The growing presence of the impending Civil War arrives too late in the book to save me from boredom. I personally found this book a pompous, self-satisfying bore.
Another Lee Masterpiece October 22, 2007
If you enjoy descriptive writing that sucks you right into a novel then this is definitely a book to add to your list. Part bildungsroman - part historical, the novel follows the path of the young Laurie as he makes his way out into the world in search of fortune and life experience. I found the writing style timeless and the story itself fascinating and gripping. A very enjoyable read.
enjoyed this book lots but there is a whiff of the disingeneous June 11, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book a lot but like his other writings there is a whiff of the disingeneous about it, I don't know how much of it I can believe, it's often rather arch, for example he loves ending passages with a short sentence that leaves the reader wanting more explanation, more honesty - "what really happens next?" we are left asking... Most of the reviews here strike me as somewhat naive, they take him at his own words... eg "a 19 year old country boy" - He was in fact 20 or 21 when he left for Spain, he says he was 19 when he left Slad... He was hardly a country boy, he was a poet who had already had a least one poem published, he must therefore have been making inroads into literary London society, he was having an affair with a wealthy London woman... hardly the innocent country boy he half encourages us to believe he was. But at the end of the day he may be a phoney and much of what he claims happened may be baloney but it's a rattling good read, so in a sense who cares if he invented it 30 or 40 years later!
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