Ebook {Epub PDF} The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer

Get the book here:bltadwin.ru Options provides marketing courses, fine art for your home and custom art.  · Book Overview. For readers of Unbroken and Flags of Our Fathers, The Mailbox is a sympathetic portrayal of veterans and the burdens they carry throughout their lives. Vernon Culligan had been dead to the town of Draydon, Virginia, so long that when the crusty Vietnam vet finally died, only one person noticed.5/5(5). The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer. For readers of Unbroken and Flags of Our Fathers, The Mailbox is a sympathetic portrayal of veterans and the burdens they carry throughout their lives. Vernon Culligan had been dead to the town of Draydon, Virginia, so long that when the crusty Vietnam vet finally died, only one.

Summary: This fine collection of work by Audrey Shafer is subtitled "Poems by a Doctor/Mother." The book begins with a section containing poems of personal history and experience ("that I call home"), descends into the nether world of anesthesia ("not quite sleep"), and in the final section returns to the light with a new perspective on the texture and occurrences of ordinary life ("okay for. Author Audrey Shafer works at the Veterans' Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and in her acknowledgments, she thanks the veterans whose sacrifices, empathy, and trust inspired this book. Age level: 10 and up. One scene of wartime violence, very necessary to the story. Buy a cheap copy of The Mailbox book by Audrey Shafer. Vernon Culligan had been dead to the town of Draydon, Virginia, so long that when the crusty Vietnam vet finally died, only one person noticed. Twelve-year-old Gabe Free shipping over $

Author Audrey Shafer works at the Veterans' Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and in her acknowledgments, she thanks the veterans whose sacrifices, empathy, and trust inspired this book. Age level: 10 and up. One scene of wartime violence, very necessary to the story. The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer is about a twelve year old kids uncle died in Virginia. The twelve year old kid, Gabe was grown up in a foster care family. When he got home and found out that his uncle was dead he got a strange note in the mailbox. Thats when he discovered that him and his uncle relationship changed his life. Ever since his uncle died he was getting strange notes in the mail and found out that war affects the soldiers, the fighting stops. The Mailbox is not a story about death--though it begins with a death. It's also not a story about Vietnam vets, although the author works with Vietnam veterans and wrote this novel, in part, to illuminate their sacrifices and suffering. The Mailbox is a story about connections--about how two people in need can save each other.