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Waiting for Childhood book. Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Helena Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott.

Waiting for Childhood book. In this engrossing, extraordinarily well-crafted novel by the. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth. Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalized in Elliott's autobiographical novel, Careful, He Might Hear You. Elliott was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. Books by Sumner Locke Elliott.

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Sumner Locke Elliott. Careful, He Might Hear You is one of the most extraordinary portraits of childhood in Australian fiction. Graceful and assured. It’s the Great Depression. Six-year-old PS is an orphan. New York TimesSumner Locke Elliott was born in Sydney on 17 October 1917. His mother was the writer Helena Sumner Locke. She died of eclampsia the day after his birth, and the boy was raised by his aunts. Careful, He Might Hear You was Elliott’s debut novel.

Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 1917 – 24 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Helena Sumner Locke (1881–1917) and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalised in Elliott's autobiographical novel, Careful, He Might Hear You.

WAITING FOR CHILDHOOD By Sumner Locke Elliott. THE book begins with a single, isolated, declarative sentence: ''There they were. 'Waiting for Childhood'' deserves to be celebrated as well. It seems most apt for what follows. 'There'' turns out to be Australia - before, during and after World War I, a period when that increasingly fascinating continent seems to have arrived at a particular sense of itself as a nation distinct from Great Britain. It offers an unusual number of attractive characters, a many-stranded plot and an affectionately ironic, occasionally luminous style as ingratiating as the people he writes about.

Электронная книга "Fairyland: Text Classics", Sumner Locke Elliott

Электронная книга "Fairyland: Text Classics", Sumner Locke Elliott. Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "Fairyland: Text Classics" для чтения в офлайн-режиме.

WAITING FOR CHILDHOOD By Sumner Locke Elliott Harper & Ro. Elliott has gone once again to the large family of an Anglican clergyman. Katherine Paterson's latest book is a translation from the Japanese of "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

Elliott has gone once again to the large family of an Anglican clergyman. Katherine Paterson's latest book is a translation from the Japanese of "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow. Her new children's novel will be published in the spring.

March 1989 : UK Paperback.

by Sumner Locke Elliott. Set in early twentieth-century Australia, this novel follows the seven children of the Reverend and Mrs. Lord as they face the world with few weapons other than their blithe optimism. Select Format: Hardcover. ISBN13: 9780330271424.

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