My Father's War
A Memoir
Eight years ago acclaimed novelist Paul West presented a warmly received memoir of his mother, My Mother's Music. Revisiting the scene now, Paul West delivers in his 40th book an equally remarkable memoir of his father, a half-blinded, shell-shocked veteran of three years of trench warfare during The War to End All Wars. But the time recounted mostly occupies 1939 to 1945, while ten-year-old Paul grows to fifteen. Together, father and son play war games, guarding the English coast from foxholes under the kitchen table, or watching as real Nazi bombers on moonlit nights pass overhead. The father, meanwhile, is forever instructing the son in th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-929701-75-2
- EAN: 9780929701752
- Produktnummer: 1668030
- Verlag: McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 187 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.8 cm 390 g
- Gewicht: 390
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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