Author: Ben Maartman. Published by Fogduckers Press, Errington, BC., 1990, 1st Edition. Signed by the Author. Printed in Canada. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor cover wear. Tight spine, clean inside.
THE STRANGE THING ABOUT MIRACLES is a collection of short stories, with the main title story being about Ben Maartman's 18-month-long experiences with 16 male, hardcore, recidivist criminal addicts who became penitentiary parolees under his care in 1962.
Ben Maartman worked for British Columbia and Ontario Probations services, and later recorded his experiences as a Vancouver counsellor for drug addicted criminals, as part of Canada's first experimental program for criminalized heroin addicts called the Special Narcotic Addiction Project. While some of the action occurs at Main & Hastings, Maartman also describes their meetings during which "the 16 poor souls had to muster their various reluctant, hostile, apathetic, glib, hopeless, needle-pocked and booze-soaked carcasses at the same long table."
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