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Returning to a childhood marred by the Second World War, this revealing ensemble revisits the streets, shore, and woods that belonged to the resort town of Scarborough. In clear, quick-moving colloquial poetry, each word explores how the war affected the townspeople--turning some into curmudgeons, others into compassionate heroes--and how the experience toughened the frightened women and children into survivors, waiting for their men to come home. Part novel, part memoir, part passionate recollection, this narrative presents characters as they were, caught in the heartbreaking hardship of wartime England.…mehr

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Returning to a childhood marred by the Second World War, this revealing ensemble revisits the streets, shore, and woods that belonged to the resort town of Scarborough. In clear, quick-moving colloquial poetry, each word explores how the war affected the townspeople--turning some into curmudgeons, others into compassionate heroes--and how the experience toughened the frightened women and children into survivors, waiting for their men to come home. Part novel, part memoir, part passionate recollection, this narrative presents characters as they were, caught in the heartbreaking hardship of wartime England.
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Christopher Wiseman s poetry, short fiction, reviews and critical writings have been published and broadcast extensively on both sides of the Atlantic. He has won two Province of Alberta Poetry Awards, the Poetry Prize from the Writers Guild of Alberta, and an Alberta Achievement Award for Excellence in the literary arts. He was Founding Vice-President, and later President of the Writers Guild of Alberta, and started the Creative Writing programme at the University of Calgary. He lives in Calgary.