Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scanell
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This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most importantly, the story of a poet. Vernon Scannell wrote some of the finest poetry to come out of the Second World War. He won the Chomondeley Prize and the Heinemann Award, and for half a century...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199603189
ISBN13:9780199603183
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:448 Pages
Weight:1.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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