Winner of the 2009 British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, short-listed for the 2008 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters. Some get the chance, and for some of those, the dream becomes a nightmare.Burning Down the House is the story of Wangersky’s eight-year career as a volunteer firefighter, an experience that wound up reaching into every facet of his life and changed the way he saw the world forever. source
Places
- AboutPortugal Cove–St. Philip's↗
Quill & Quire identifies Portugal Cove–St. Philip's as the NL volunteer department whose calls structure the memoir's second half.
Quill & Quire, review of Burning Down the House (2008) — source
