Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood - Softcover

Manley, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554700507 ISBN 13: 9781554700509

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 2009

Synopsis

Rachel Manley, granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica's national leaders, tells the story of the brilliant and artistic Manleys, Jamaica's most prominent and glamorous political family, and the house in which they lived, Drumblair. Manley vividly recreates the world in which she came of age in this intimate and captivating memoir of the people who most changed Jamaica's intellectual, social, and cultural landscape.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"...Vividly, enchantingly described..." --Marian Fowler, Toronto Star

"The biography of a time and place. Reading Drumblair is to revisit an old autograph book, to wonder at childhood perceptions, and to grow up in the midst of a romantic post-World War II curiosity." -Austin Clarke, The Globe and Mail

"A brilliant portrait of an entire society's exciting anguished period of becoming, seen through the eyes of innocent childhood, turbulent adolescence and ripening maturity. What a feast!" -Dr. Rex Nettleford, O.M., Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies

"A sensitive and invaluable memoir. Admirable in its reticence and accurate in its mood." -Derek Walcott, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Poetry

From the Inside Flap:

Rachel Manley, granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica's national leaders, tells the story of the brilliant, artistic Manleys - Jamaica's most prominent and glamorous political family - and the house that nurtured them: Drumblair. This is a world vividly recreated, and an intimate memoir of the people who changed Jamaica's intellectual, social and cultural landscape for all time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1554700507
• ISBN 13: 9781554700509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 407