Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of War and
📂 Fiction
📅 2011
🏛 Bloomsbury Publishing
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By the Ghost Light : Wars, Memory, and Families
✍ Scribed by R.H. Thomson
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations.
Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the carpet of his grandmother’s house, recreating the Battle of Britain with model planes in his bedroom, or sitting at the local theatre watching World War II B movies—ones that offered a very clear perspective on who were the heroes and who the villains; which side were the victors and which the vanquished.
Yet Thomson’s childhood was also shaped by the spirits of real-life warriors in his family, their fates a brutal and more complicated reminder of the true human cost of war. Eight of Robert’s great uncles—George, Joe, Jack, Harold, Arthur, Warren, Wildy, and Fred—fought in...
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