Not exact matches
Set in 18th
Century Denmark, A Royal Affair is a gorgeous, intricate
retelling of a true
story, says Lilit Marcus in her review.
The
story of «The Great Forgetting» was one
of my favorites and Auntie savored the
retelling of a town in the Carpathian Mountains where the people had been pillaged for so many
centuries that they knew no joy.
His second collection, Hard Light, a
retelling of his father's
stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery
of half a
century ago, conjures a world
of hard work and heavy weather, shot through with humour, endurance and love; in its imagery and sensibility it compares to Michael Turner's poems about a British Columbia salmon cannery in Company Town.
It loosely
retells the
story of The Hundred Years war which took place between the kingdoms
of England and France way back in the 14th and 15th
century.