(MOBI) Almost a Great Escape : 9780864926869

Almost a Great Escape
A Found Story
by Tyler Trafford

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• ISBN: 9780864926869 (0864926863)
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Awards: Alberta Readers’ Choice Award (2014), City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize (2013)
• Language: english
• Genres: canada, biography, history
• Release date: March 12, 2013
• Author: Tyler Trafford
• Format: paperback, 267 pages

About The Book

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell Award, the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, and the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award

Following his mother’s death in 2004, Tyler Trafford discovers an album of old letters and creased photographs that reveal a mother he never knew, a man he’s never heard of, and a love affair doomed by class and circumstance. The letters are from Jens M?ller, a Norwegian pilot who trained in Canada during the early days of World War II, one of only three prisoners who would make it home after The Great Escape.

In Almost a Great Escape, Trafford takes us on a journey of emotional discovery and dramatic disclosure as he reconstructs his mother’s life, from her youth as a wealthy Montreal debutante to her final days as a broken but unbent casualty of a loveless marriage. His search for answers takes him across Canada and then across the ocean to Norway, hoping to learn more about the mystery of this secret relationship. Written with a fluidity fueled by heart-wrenching honesty, Trafford’s unconventional memoir confirms that while you can survive your past, you can never escape from it.

Almost a Great Escape includes photographs as well as excerpts and reproductions of telegrams and letters Jens sent from England and Stalag Luft III.

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