The Summer of the Barshinskeys
A European Literature, Cultural, Historical book. This is an epic length read. The first half, or nearly so, all...
"Although the story of the Barshinskeys, which became our story, too, stretched over many summers and winters, that golden time of 1902 was when our strange, involved relationship began, when our youthful longing for the exotic, for the fulfillment of dreams not even dreamed, took a solid and restless hold upon us."So recounts Sophie Wolloughby as she remembers that magical English summer afternoon in the season of King Edward VII's coronation and at the end of the Boer War; that dreamlike lull in time when the hedgerows were smothered in elderflowers and the meadow air was sweet with haymaking. With her brother, Edwin, her sister, Lillian, Sophie listened to the seductive strains of the wild Russian violin tune Mr. Barshinskey played and watched spellbound as the ragtag Barshinskey family-Ivan, sullen and dirty; Mrs. Barshinskey, pale and withdrawn; and Galina, sensual, wanton, beautiful-made their way across Tyler's meadow and into the Willoughby's world.The delighted Willoughby children could not know that this day and the Barshinskeys' arrival would change their lives forever-much as a breathless...
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- Pages: 399 pages
- ISBN: 9780517555200 / 517555204
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This is an epic length read. The first half, or nearly so, all occurs in the summer of 1902 in Kent countryside town. On the day when Mr. Barshinskey and his family arrive to live in the abandoned cottage next door to the Wiloughbys, we meet nearly all the characters. Contrast, conflict and interchange between the two families cores... Great story! Just arrived from France through BM.This book tells the story of the Willoughby family and how their children's life was totally changed after the arrival of the Barshinskey's in their life's.The first part of the book has a reading speed is very slow giving a false impression as far as the rest of the book. As this part details the...
