Dear Toots by Grant H Carpenter
After Uncle Sam activated Reservist Grant Carpenter into the Army Corps of Engineers in May, 1941, Carp could not have anticipated that a December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor would ultimately send him overseas for three years, seven months, and seven days. Before returning home, Carp would serve on Ascension Island, then in Africa, England, and France, making stops in other countries along the way.
Brought up in South London, Susan Noble was the second of three children. Her childhood was enriched by being part of our large and closely-knit Jewish family. Unfortunately stricken by polio (then known as infantile paralysis) in her early years, Susan went through life with a degree of physical handicap which she was to overcome with courage and determination. Educated at Croydon High School, Susan studied English at Somerville College, Oxford. After graduating, Susan worked in London, first at the Royal National Institute for the Blind, dictating books for transcription into Braille, and later at the National Central Library in London, where she qualified as a Chartered Librarian. Susan's exceptional sensitivity was reflected not only in the intense outpouring of poems to be found in The Dream of Stairs, Inside the Stretch of My Heart, and Before and After the Darkness, but also in the novel Drifting Between Empty Tramlines and the short story collection A Flock of Blackbirds. In both her poetry and her fiction, she chronicles her personal response to the world around her, while vividly portraying the inner landscape of her own mental and emotional struggle. 'There was an intellectual and emotional intensity which burned within her and which predominantly found outward expression in her writing and when she expressed herself thus she did so with great imaginative power and also with an uncompromising honesty and integrity.' (Rabbi Dr David Goldstein)
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| ISBN 13 | 9781638217756 |
| ISBN 10 | 1638217750 |
| Title | Dear Toots |
| Author | Grant H Carpenter |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Susan Carpenter Noble |
| Year published | 2021-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 338 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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