The Portygee
- ISBN-10
- 1412119669
- ISBN-13
- 9781412119665
- Category
- Grandparent and child
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
Description
The temperament and "half love" of the son of a Spanish opera singer make difficulties with his Yankee grandfather. The young fellow, half Spanish, half New England, wholly poet and artist ... Set in the small hamlet, chafing at the restraints and humdrumness of the place, Albert makes a delicious contrast to the native population. And each is as likeable and as loving as the other. We understand the passionate, temperamental boy as well as his old Grandfather, with his fury against all that sort of "foolishness."
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