What does it mean if the fourteen-year-old daughter in an affectionate, loyal, and at least "three-quarter's cultured" family has bad dreams about the Gestapo? This is memoir-not fiction-about a wartime Christmas in Duluth in 1944. Young Carol has two weeks home from boarding school in the East. Her mother has been dead two years, and of her three brothers, all in uniform, two are away at war. Carol arranges the cr???che and admires the tree all right, but she also likes writing medium bad sonnets and plans to kiss "that ...
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What does it mean if the fourteen-year-old daughter in an affectionate, loyal, and at least "three-quarter's cultured" family has bad dreams about the Gestapo? This is memoir-not fiction-about a wartime Christmas in Duluth in 1944. Young Carol has two weeks home from boarding school in the East. Her mother has been dead two years, and of her three brothers, all in uniform, two are away at war. Carol arranges the cr???che 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.
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Add this copy of An Adolescent's Christmas: 1944 to cart. $2.53, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Afton Historical Society Press.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Edition, Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. A Memoir about wartime Christmas in Duluth, Minnesota, 1944. Carol Bly as an adolescent girl whose three brothers were all in uniform with two away at war had nightmares about war and genocide. She also remembers arranging the creche and tree for Christmas and thinking about that special boy--Carol Bly comes to some astonishing conclusions when thinking about her own adolescent thinking and what adolescents experience today. 62 pages. 9.5 x 6.6 inches. 2000, Afton Historical Society Press, Afton, Minnesota, U.S.A.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Hbk 61pp stated 1st edition INSCRIBED by the author on title page prev owner's stamp discretely on front endpaper otherwise appears unread and an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in sleeve=protected dj almost as new.
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