Wait 'til your father gets home! by Dorothy Swoope (English) Paperback Book

Description: Wait 'til your father gets home! by Dorothy Swoope Wait til your father gets home! is an intimate and humorous collection of stories about a nuclear family in New Jersey during the 1950s and1960s. Set at the height of the Cold War, the American Civil Rights Movement and post war plenty, these stories give us a glimpse into a lifestyle that was unique to the urban commuting families of that time.Whether she is raiding the chocolates in the fallout shelter, hawking homemade refreshments around the neighbourhood for pocket-money, running the gauntlet past the scariest dog in town or lying in terror knowing that Frankenstein has relocated to her bedroom closet, Dorothy Swoopes childhood memoirs both entertain and delight.In these stories, we discover a threat even greater than the atomic bomb. It is a mothers cry: Wait til your father gets home! FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Dorothy Swoope is the author of The Touch of a Word (Creative Spirit), Ice Dancing (University of Wollongong) and Contemplating the View (Middle Ridge Press). She is an award winning poet whose works have been published in print and online in newspapers, anthologies and literary magazines in Australian, the USA and Canada. She was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey. In her Twenties she headed west to Oregon with her husband, three year old daughter and six week old puppy. After two years they answered the recruitment call for teachers in New South Wales, Australia arriving in the watershed year of 1975. She still lives in New South Wales on the South Coast and can be found most days daydreaming in her garden and gazing out to sea. Details ISBN1533202524 Author Dorothy Swoope Pages 78 Language English Year 2016 ISBN-10 1533202524 ISBN-13 9781533202529 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-07-27 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127609513;

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