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The Three of Us
Julia Blackburn
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Description for The Three of Us
Paperback. Tells the story of three people: the author, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322.
Winner of the J. R. Ackerley Award
This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates; Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious. After her parents were divorced, Julia's mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each should become her lover. When one of the lodgers started an affair with Julia, Rosalie was devastated; when he later committed suicide the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocably.
Or so it seemed until the spring of 1999, when Rosalie, diagnosed with leukaemia, came to live with Julia for the last month of her life.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099507048
SKU
V9780099507048
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Julia Blackburn
Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses, which was broadcast in 2011.
Reviews for The Three of Us
A small masterpiece, much to be recommended
Daily Telegraph
Blackburn has written an exceptionally perceptive and fascinating book, a tribute by a remarkable daughter to the resilience of filial love
Sunday Telegraph
A stunningly written memoir
Sunday Times
The Three of Us contains all the mental and physical violations that cling to the bare bones of their shared past... Blackburn was never afraid of her father. It's very clear in the book - he is described even at his blackest moments with affection and warmth
Guardian
Blackburn's first 16 years sound quite frankly too bad to be true. Nightmarish infact - though she details them in such an ingenuous, matter-of-fact manner that she somehow manages to make terrible events seem almost funny.... the resulting memoir is mesmerising and brilliant
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
Blackburn has written an exceptionally perceptive and fascinating book, a tribute by a remarkable daughter to the resilience of filial love
Sunday Telegraph
A stunningly written memoir
Sunday Times
The Three of Us contains all the mental and physical violations that cling to the bare bones of their shared past... Blackburn was never afraid of her father. It's very clear in the book - he is described even at his blackest moments with affection and warmth
Guardian
Blackburn's first 16 years sound quite frankly too bad to be true. Nightmarish infact - though she details them in such an ingenuous, matter-of-fact manner that she somehow manages to make terrible events seem almost funny.... the resulting memoir is mesmerising and brilliant
Daily Mail