TY - BOOK AU - Myers,Benjamin TI - The offing SN - 9781733350143 PY - 2020///] CY - Nashville, Tennessee PB - Third Man Books KW - Teenage boys KW - Fiction KW - Older women KW - Intergenerational relations KW - Friendship KW - Robin Hood's Bay (England) KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Bildungsromans N2 - During an idyllic English summer following World War II an unlikely friendship emerges between a teenage, nationalistic working class man and an older bohemian woman. While working a summer job for her, the teenager discovers an unpublished book of poetry holding a tragic secret message beyond the grave from her deceased lover, and both their lives are irrevocably changed ER -