An Adolescent's Christmas, 1944 - Hardcover

Bly, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1890434183 ISBN 13: 9781890434182

Publisher: Afton Historical Society Pr, 2000

Synopsis

What does it mean if a fourteen-year-old member of an affectionate, loyal, and at least "three-quarters cultured" family has bad dreams about the Gestapo? What are our fourteen-year-olds having nightmares about today?

Here is memoir––not fiction—about a wartime Christmas in Duluth, l944. Young Carol has two weeks home from boarding school. Her mother has been dead two years, and of her three brothers, all in uniform, two are away at war. The father sends weekly carbons to his four children––word of each and news of the war in general. Carol arranges the crèche and admires the tree all right, but she also likes writing medium bad sonnets and plans to kiss "that boy in someone’s rumpus room if he was the same one I thought he was." Underneath all that, she dreams about Germans, and genocide.

Recalling her own adolescent thinking, and thinking of what adolescents experience now, Carol Bly comes to some astonishing conclusions.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Bly (1930–2007) was born in Duluth and educated at Abbot Academy, Wellesley College, and the University of Minnesota. She has written several books of essays and short stories including Changing the Bully Who Rules the World (Milkweed Editions, 1996), "Chuck’s Money" (TriQuarterly, May 1999), My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories (Milkweed Editions, 2000) and Beyond the Writer's Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction (Anchor, 2001). She was the1998–99 Edelstein-Keller Author of Distinction at the University of Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: Afton Historical Society Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1890434183
• ISBN 13: 9781890434182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 62