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Memoirs of Foreman as a boy during the rebuilding of Britain after World War II. Foreman recalls victory bonfires, the ongoing rationing, prefab houses, baths in tin tubs, beaches first cleared of barbed wire and mines, and describes his development as an artist. Includes watercolor illustrations and period documents and photographs.
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出版社周刊评论
Continuing the illustrated memoirs of childhood begun in his glowing War Boy (1990), Foreman casts his artistic vision on the years following WWII. A boy in an English coastal village, he thrills to the victory bonfires ("the embers remained hot enough for days to bake potatoes"), finds it a "shock" to have men as teachers at school and envies a friend who lives in an ex-Army hut "with its great curved iron roof like an aircraft hangar." The volume follows Foreman through his student years and his awakening to artistic pursuits, ending when he is 16 or 17, in his second year in art school and receiving his first kiss. Lavishing each spread with his lithe, limber watercolors, he creates an intimate album, full of glimpses of family and friends, episodes recorded with a natural affinity for the telling detail. His personal account is marinated in perceptions of postwar recovery and national pastimes: there are football heroes and matinee idols, teddy boys and the 1951 Festival of Britain. The writing moves at a leisurely pace but the impact is immediate. A book to be savored equally by those who share Foreman's memories and those experiencing the coming-of-age discoveries he illuminates with such generosity and humor. All ages. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
After The War Was Over ($18.95; May 20, 1996; 96 pp.; 0-55970-329- 6): Unusually small typeface doesn't detract from this companion to War Boy (1990) and War Game (1994), about the return to relative innocence that marked the immediate postWW II years. In shining prose, Foreman limns the wonders of peace time: his first visit to a beach, the end of rationing, the Big Band sounds coming over the radio. The illustrations, watercolors punctuated by black-and-white drawings and full-color reproductions of advertisements and posters, convey the poignancy of the times: In the stooped posture of two Estonian schoolboys is all the fear an outsider ever felt. Evocative and memorable. (Autobiography. 10+)
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Gr. 4^-8. In this sequel to Foreman's prizewinning memoir War Game (1990), the British artist remembers what it was like to grow up in an English fishing village in the years after World War II. With both adult distance and childlike immediacy, his personal narrative and line-and-watercolor pictures create a warm sense of time and place. American kids will skip over some of the British idioms and local references, but everyone will enjoy the chatty particulars. Foreman remembers the bomb sites that became adventure playgrounds. He also remembers class warfare: he was one of the "common boys" whom the posh kids shouldn't play with ("We could spit further, pee higher" ). He remembers the weekly family bath in a tin tub in front of the fire. He also describes how he stumbled on his vocation as an artist and how he discovered girls ("The wet swimsuit showed the little dent of her bellybutton" ). His tone is modest; it's the details that convey the ordinariness and the excitement of coming-of-age. --Hazel Rochman