Foundry Street

By John M. Sharpe

Set at the close of WWII, "Foundry Street" evokes the hopes, fears, and emotions of a small Canadian town waiting and praying for the end of a distant, interminable war; where Brett Shannon and his best friend, Marty Winslow, cope with stirring teen-age passions and listless days by indulging in sexual fantasies about -- and with -- Ellie Legere, a fiery, uninhibited woman-child from lower Foundry Street, the slag heap of the town's poor. The tangled relationships of "Foundry Street" range from the brutal to the tender: from rape, incest, and extortion to fidelity, redemption, and true love; and tell of the innocence of youth lost forever as Marty escapes a tyrannical father, while Ellie is freed from a life of degradation as she and Brett find true love. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes gloriously uplifting, "Foundry Street" is a window to the past: a snapshot of small-town Canada in an era long gone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612964613
• ISBN13: 9781612964614
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Black Rose Writing
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"