This Stubborn SoilScribner, 1966 - 307 էջ In this remarkable American autobiography, William Owens gives an account of his childhood and youth in Texas. Born in a tiny place called Pin Hook, not far from the Oklahoma border, Mr. Owens eloquently records a frontier life that seems incredible in the twentieth century -- a struggle with desperate poverty, with the land, and above all a struggle to gain an education. |
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... clothes from Sears , Roebuck , and my brothers met the mail carrier every day . I would have new clothes and I wanted to stand by myself in front of the crowd and be seen in them . Cleaver went ahead . I lagged behind , trying to put ...
... clothes from Sears , Roebuck , and my brothers met the mail carrier every day . I would have new clothes and I wanted to stand by myself in front of the crowd and be seen in them . Cleaver went ahead . I lagged behind , trying to put ...
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... clothes in front of it . My mother brought him fried eggs and hot biscuits and he ate while he got ready . I watched her slip a piece of cake and a piece of corn bread in with his clothes . Before daylight a wagon came up the road and ...
... clothes in front of it . My mother brought him fried eggs and hot biscuits and he ate while he got ready . I watched her slip a piece of cake and a piece of corn bread in with his clothes . Before daylight a wagon came up the road and ...
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... clothes . Pat opened the door . " Here . " I could not see him but I knew Mr. Swindle was in the room . " Get your clothes on and get going , " he said . " Get to the cotton patch and don't come in till I tell you . " It was still black ...
... clothes . Pat opened the door . " Here . " I could not see him but I knew Mr. Swindle was in the room . " Get your clothes on and get going , " he said . " Get to the cotton patch and don't come in till I tell you . " It was still black ...
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