Philip Dodd
Auteur de Genesis (French Edition)
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Philip Dodd [credit: Justine Stoddart]
Œuvres de Philip Dodd
The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium: From Joseph Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items were Named for Extraordinary… (2007) 53 exemplaires
Follow the Heart: The Art of Sean Scully 2 exemplaires
People with intellectual disabilities 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1957-11-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Rochester, Kent, England, UK
- Études
- Oxford University (Jesus College)
The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe - Professions
- author
publisher
editor
publishing consultant
pianist
Director, ICA - Organisations
- Longman Group
Virgin Publishing
Society of Young Publishers
Groucho Club
Octopus Group
Society of Authors (tout afficher 7)
Royal Society of Literature
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 310
- Popularité
- #76,069
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 50
- Langues
- 6
"My mind creates mirrors in the air. They reveal pictures from my past. The people, structures and objects contained within them look cleansed of any dust or drabness. They appear, therefore, more alive, more compelling, than those I see around me in the present. I have no control over the mirrors. I cannot urge them to be or to vanish. They become solid in the air by their own will, not by mine. It is they that direct this memoir, not my pen.
"There I am, in the first mirror, sitting at the kitchen table, having my breakfast. I am a small boy, four years old."
I was especially touched by Chapter Six, The Hole In The Wire Mesh, which speaks of Harvey's disappearance. Indeed, I read it with tears in my eyes.
"I glared at the hideous hole in horror, my stomach, cold and empty, my head heavy, hollow." Thus the author writes of how he felt when he stared at the hole in the wire mesh of Harvey's empty hutch, the evidence that he had been stolen in the night. The four-year-old boy feels the loss of his pet rabbit.
Brought up with love and care by his parents, the author had a happy childhood, nonetheless. His memoir is not only a moving drama, it has some light-hearted moments, too. He speaks not only about his past but his present, too. In Chapter Fifteen, The Land of Lavash and the Pomegranate, he writes about his visits to Armenia.
"I have never been to the Holy Land. I am certain I never will. Armenia is the closest I will ever be to stepping on holy ground. I am moved by its history as the first country in the world to abandon its pagan past and accept Christianity as its religion." Thus he writes in that chapter, revealing how impressed he is by the ancient history of Armenia.
I give this great book five stars. It must be read.… (plus d'informations)