false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179282530m/897867.jpg 897867 12 On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages.... The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover; 16 year old Joss, the oldest Grey girl, suddenly, achingly beautiful. And the Marne river flowing silent and slow beyond them all.... They would merge together in a gold-green summer of discovery, until the fruit rotted on the trees and cold seeped into their bones.... The Greengage Summer is Rumer Godden's tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne-which became a memorable film starring Kenneth More and Susannah York. In the preface, Rumer Godden explains how it came to be written. 2641291 1958 The Greengage Summer total:133|5:39|4:56|3:32|2:4|1:2| 133 525 176 15 4 0 false true Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 01:38:53 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 02:18:58 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1966 Sun Aug 24 13:08:27 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 15:47:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 21:05:42 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 17:26:13 -0700 2009
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