Just think about how many novels are still being written that take place during the First and Second World Wars - it was a time of drama and suspense – and, as writers and readers, we love it. I realize that as a reader, we also have a fascination with war – and wartime - in the literature that we read. We came of age during the migration of young Americans to Canada, avoiding the draft – we went to University with them, many of us married them. We are old enough to remember the nightly news with the body count of those killed in Vietnam. I remember the scare of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis – we really thought it might be the end of the world – as we hid under our desks at school. My generation – the baby boomers – grew up as the children of those who fought in the Second World War and, or, Korea. Stockey Centre on Wednesday 16 October at 7:30 pm.įor each of us, what we talk about when we talk about war is as personal and as different as we are as individuals. Noah Richler will talk with us about WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WAR at the Charles W. What We Talk About When We Talk About War is the most recent book by Noah Richler – an exceptional thinker and writer – in the words of Stephen Lewis, a writer of “courage and insight”. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WAR
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