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 To School Through the Fields: A Country Childhood Remembered by Alice TaylorIf ever a voice has caputured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hard back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The colorful characters and joyous moments she offers have made To School Through the Fields an Irish phenomenon (the biggest bestseller in Ireland's history), and have made Alice herself the mose beloved author in all of the Emerald Isle. "For anyone in need of a quick vacation, Alice Taylor's memoir...will do as well as an afternoon spent sitting in field high enough to blot out the skyscrapers. Taylor's telling makes the world of her village universal, and sets her firmly in that mysteriously potent Irish storytelling tradition. " --Los Angeles Times "One of th most richly evocative and moving portraits of childhood [ever] written..gentle and beckoning..a journey every reader will treasure and will want to read over and over again. " --Boston Herald 5" x 8" - (3/94)
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