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Santa Rosa - Ms. Wendy Mcgrath - Bog - NeWest Press - Plusbog.dk

Santa Rosa - Ms. Wendy Mcgrath - Bog - NeWest Press - Plusbog.dk

What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Santa Rosa seeks the answers to these questions as she tries to make sense of the disintegration of her parents'' marriage-a process echoed by the slow disintegration of their neighbourhood. In subtle poetic prose, Wendy McGrath evokes afternoons at the fair captured in overexposed photographs, and a family''s disquieting day at the beach as moments that exist apart from time, in a place where every sense is heightened, and where every memory is sharpened as if in a lucid dream where understanding lies just beyond reach.

DKK 141.00
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Broke City - Ms. Wendy Mcgrath - Bog - NeWest Press - Plusbog.dk

Broke City - Ms. Wendy Mcgrath - Bog - NeWest Press - Plusbog.dk

Broke City , the final book in Wendy McGrath''s Santa Rosa trilogy, follows young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa. Budding with creativity that her working-class parents do not understand, Christine questions her parents'' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubbling just under the surface of their marriage. Her insight turns beyond her family to her neighbourhood, nicknamed Packingtown, a community built on meat-packing plants and abattoirs, on death. Written with tight lyricism, Broke City is a brimming working-class gothic novel that reveals Christine''s deepening knowledge of the adult world around her and of her own complicated place in that world.?

DKK 155.00
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North East - Ms. Wendy Mcgrath - Bog - NeWest Press - Plusbog.dk

North East - Ms. Wendy Mcgrath - Bog - NeWest Press - Plusbog.dk

In North East , Wendy McGrath expands on the story she began with Santa Rosa , as a working class couple living in 1960s Edmonton drift further apart while their young daughter tries to understand something she senses is hiding under the surface of her family and her neighbourhood. A visit to her grandparents'' farm in the country reveals the abject poverty the couple came to the city to escape, and the internecine marital strife that threatens to be born anew. McGrath''s crystalline, evocative prose conjures an image of the past that defies nostalgia, conjuring images of a city that is in the midst of rewriting its own history. Through the all-seeing eyes of her child protagonist McGrath conjures indelible scenes of harsh domesticity and small victories, of endless summertime days spent around the home and evenings at the drive-in theatre.

DKK 148.00
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Revision of Forward, A - Ms. Wendy Mcgrath - Bog - NeWest Press - Plusbog.dk

Revision of Forward, A - Ms. Wendy Mcgrath - Bog - NeWest Press - Plusbog.dk

By turns tender and rough-hewn, and always structurally inventive, the poems in Wendy McGrath''s new collection show a writer reaching the height of her creative powers. Whether evoking the vulgar give-and-take of a men''s poker night, fleeting moments of connection between mothers and sons, afternoons spent in overgrown backyard gardens, or wondrous childhood trips to the drive-in, McGrath''s feel for the bygone details of working-class life is uncanny. The book''s highlight is the playful poetic sequence that gives the book its title, the product of a more-than-decade-long improvisational collaboration with printmaker Walter Jule, a series of not-quite-mirror poems whose meanings reflect on each other in kaleidoscopic ways.

DKK 148.00
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