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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... piece out of the skillet , a round piece with no bones but a backbone . With corn bread and buttermilk it was enough for supper . I begged and got another piece . Then I was sent to bed on a pallet in the hall , where I could smell fish ...
... piece out of the skillet , a round piece with no bones but a backbone . With corn bread and buttermilk it was enough for supper . I begged and got another piece . Then I was sent to bed on a pallet in the hall , where I could smell fish ...
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... piece of ground , getting ready to plant it in corn . " Good thing you got home early , " he said . " Plenty of work for you , burning brush . " They had decided without telling me that it was time for me to quit school . Cleaver had ...
... piece of ground , getting ready to plant it in corn . " Good thing you got home early , " he said . " Plenty of work for you , burning brush . " They had decided without telling me that it was time for me to quit school . Cleaver had ...
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... piece of cheese to go with the bread I had left . It took the last of my money , so I put half of each in my pockets for the next day . To keep down hunger and thirst , and to ease my burning throat , I broke pieces of ice from the ...
... piece of cheese to go with the bread I had left . It took the last of my money , so I put half of each in my pockets for the next day . To keep down hunger and thirst , and to ease my burning throat , I broke pieces of ice from the ...
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