Sandi Krawchenko Altner Author of Ravenscraig, winner of the Carol Shields Book Award. Sandi is a journalist, novelist, personal historian and compulsive www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins. Bob Altner, Sandi Altner, Mary Krawchenko, Lisa Lester, Sandra Altner. With four weeks on the bestseller list in Winnipeg, Ravenscraig, is finding an audience among both family history enthusiasts as well as people who have a fascination with the Titanic and Winnipeg’s connection to the great disaster. I am grateful and so pleased that there is such a strong interest in stories about how the early . · Ravenscraig tells the story of multiple families from radically different socio-economic backgrounds. In fact the title of the book is the name of an enormous super mansion in Winnipeg. However, the same city, which experienced near explos Ravenscraig is a historical novel with multifaceted plots/5(52).
Deal Me In Reading Challenge: I drew the eight of clubs. Story: The Homecoming, by Milly Jafta [from The Granta Book of the African Short Story]. Comments: This is a particularly short story, and on the surface of it, very little happens. It's just one scene: a woman (aged ) gets off a bus someplace. What to Read Before You Go: Ravenscraig by Sandi Krawchenko Altner (Franklin Gallagher, ), an epic family drama set in Winnipeg at the turn of the 20th century, won the Carol Shields. Sandi Krawchenko Altner tells a fascinating story in Ravenscraig. She dramatizes the era when immigrants from Eastern Europe populated Winnipeg, Canada. Their presence, though not universally appreciated (conflict), enriched the area through their labors and culture.
On By Sandi Krawchenko Altner In Blogs I recommend, History, Storytellers, Ukrainians in Canada, Uncategorized, Winnipeg, Writing 1 Comment Ravenscraig, The Blog This blog celebrates the history of Winnipeg, my hometown, and occasionally allows me to indulge in some wider observations of the world that catch my interest. Ravenscraig, by Sandi Krawchenko Altner, Winner of the Carol Shields Book Award Romance, scandal, and tragedy grip the lives of two families and threaten to destroy them both in Ravenscraig, by Sandi Krawchenko Altner. Ravenscraig tells the story of multiple families from radically different socio-economic backgrounds. In fact the title of the book is the name of an enormous super mansion in Winnipeg. However, the same city, which experienced near explos Ravenscraig is a historical novel with multifaceted plots.
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