As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Penguin Modern Classics)

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I was,” he reflected, “a young man whose time coincided with the last years of peace, and so was perhaps luckier than any generation since. It is not uncommon on a country road to see a small white van parked in the shade and one man with a mattock, hoeing in a large field of weeds. I found a rough little hollow out of the wind, a miniature crater among the rocks, ate some bread and dates, unrolled the blanket and wrapped myself inside it. We get his take on the common Folk in a few cities and towns, where he works as a busker playing the fiddle for tips as well as food and drink.

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee - Goodreads

In 2016, I reread As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and I am delighted to report it is every bit as good as I had remembered.He was 19 years old, he had a hazel stick in his hand and a violin wrapped in a blanket under his arm.

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I am another of those “English walkers” who has been drawn to Spain, and I was inspired to do so in part by reading Lee’s book.Street people, all of them treated as expendables, fare especially poorly in his lust for shocking moments.