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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... gone out to meet him . I waited in the door till he toled me out on the porch with a handful of candy teddy bears , pink and brown . He pushed at me on one shoulder and then the other , and scuffled with me till I doubled up my fists ...
... gone out to meet him . I waited in the door till he toled me out on the porch with a handful of candy teddy bears , pink and brown . He pushed at me on one shoulder and then the other , and scuffled with me till I doubled up my fists ...
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... gone , we could hear wagons going through the Pine Creek bottom and the sound of singing . My mother and grandmother still had things to say to Monroe . They said them in front of the fire , with me listening from bed till I went to ...
... gone , we could hear wagons going through the Pine Creek bottom and the sound of singing . My mother and grandmother still had things to say to Monroe . They said them in front of the fire , with me listening from bed till I went to ...
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... gone anywhere without socks . " By Friday evening the clothes were ready for me to put on . My mother had washed my duckings and shirt and tied them up in a newspaper . I would need work clothes when I got to Dallas . There was time ...
... gone anywhere without socks . " By Friday evening the clothes were ready for me to put on . My mother had washed my duckings and shirt and tied them up in a newspaper . I would need work clothes when I got to Dallas . There was time ...
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