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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William A. Owens. grandmother did not think so . She thought a woman out by herself would have a hard time getting a job picking cotton . She thought my mother was too slow at picking to make more than her room and board . My mother ...
William A. Owens. grandmother did not think so . She thought a woman out by herself would have a hard time getting a job picking cotton . She thought my mother was too slow at picking to make more than her room and board . My mother ...
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... thought it . " " I'd never a thought lots o ' things , " my grandmother said . " You have to see to know . Come on , " she said to my mother , " I've said all I need to say , when I say I don't ever want to see it happen- ing agin ...
... thought it . " " I'd never a thought lots o ' things , " my grandmother said . " You have to see to know . Come on , " she said to my mother , " I've said all I need to say , when I say I don't ever want to see it happen- ing agin ...
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... thought they might as well be working . " Town folks , " Dewey said . " They don't know much about work . " We left ... thought it would be , and more than I thought it would be .. How could I know that any place would be so beautiful ...
... thought they might as well be working . " Town folks , " Dewey said . " They don't know much about work . " We left ... thought it would be , and more than I thought it would be .. How could I know that any place would be so beautiful ...
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