Dimensions
190 x 258 x 11mm
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-watercolour pictures create a warm sense of time and place. 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. 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.
His tone is modest; it's the details that convey the ordinariness and the excitement of coming-of-age.
