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Almost A Great Escape: A Found Story

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By Tyler Trafford ***W.O. Mitchell Award Winner******Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction******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...
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By Tyler Trafford

***W.O. Mitchell Award Winner***
***Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction***
***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 Müller, 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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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions (March 2013)
ISBN-13: 9780864926869
Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.8 x 22.9 cm

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