Weeds in the Wilderness: Growing Up in Rural Oklahoma - Couverture souple

Sherrill, Tom

 
9780692226551: Weeds in the Wilderness: Growing Up in Rural Oklahoma
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0692226559 ISBN 13 : 9780692226551
Editeur : Prairie Moon Press, 2018

Synopsis

A family of five moves from the big city to a small Oklahoma farming community in 1947. With no running water, no indoor plumbing, and only a crank telephone, the move of only thirty miles takes them back in time one hundred years. Tom, the youngest of the three children, tells it like it was. He and his two siblings are left to fend for themselves while their parents scrape to bring the little town of Owasso into the twentieth century. Like many families in this postwar generation, the parents had grown up during the Great Depression. When World War II began, lots of young women like Tom's mother left their jobs as housewives and full-time mothers and never went back. Family life after the war was never the same again. Those changes began with kids like Tom. The freedom and thrill-seeking he experiences growing up in the 1950s will ring true to others who grew up in this era. His post-war American story of how he and his brother and sister were left to grow "like weeds in the wilderness" is told with humor, candor, and warmth. Readers will discover an engaging piece of American history.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A family of five moves from the big city to a small Oklahoma farming community in 1947. With no running water, no indoor plumbing, and only a crank telephone, the move of only thirty miles takes them back in time one hundred years. Tom, the youngest of the three children, tells it like it was. He and his two siblings are left to fend for themselves while their parents scrape to bring the little town of Owasso into the twentieth century. Like many families in this postwar generation, the parents had grown up during the Great Depression. When World War II began, lots of young women like Tom's mother left their jobs as housewives and full-time mothers and never went back. Family life after the war was never the same again. Those changes began with kids like Tom. The freedom and thrill-seeking he experiences growing up in the 1950s will ring true to others who grew up in this era. His post-war American story of how he and his brother and sister were left to grow "like weeds in the wilderness" is told with humor, candor, and warmth. Readers will discover an engaging piece of American history.

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Éditeur
Prairie Moon Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0692226559
ISBN 13 
9780692226551
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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Personne responsable
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