The Eyes of the Amaryllis

When eleven-year-old Jenny goes to stay with her widowed grandmother who lives by the seaside, she learns a great deal about the nature of love and the ways of the sea.

First sentence: Listen, all you people lying lazy on the beach, is this what you imagine is the meaning of the sea?

Year

1977

Language

English

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Editions

3

Pages

144

ISBN

9780374422387

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