Back to the War

by Frank Davey

More than 30 years in the making, Frank Davey's careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence his youthful imagination assembled growing up in and immediately after World War II is a work of astonishment.

This is no lyrical work of sentimental nostalgia, no attempt to return to a romanticized "simpler past," no rediscovery of "the child within," but rather a careful reconstruction of "the child without." The reader moves through these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889225141
• ISBN13: 9780889225145
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.1"