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Out of Texas - Couverture souple

Atwater, Edell

 
9781418449971: Out of Texas
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1418449970 ISBN 13 : 9781418449971
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

Barbara, born in Texas and raised in California, struggles for acceptance from early childhood. Her earliest memories are of Mama saying she is ugly and looks like Daddy. Daddy changes jobs frequently, so she never attends the same school for long, and always feels like an outsider. When they move to California during the depression, the kids make fun of her clothes and she gets a poor grade in English. "Because you talks like a Texan," the teacher explains. They move to Oregon when she is a sophomore in high school, and she makes friends there. She is beginning to feel accepted when they move back to California. In her teens, she falls in love with Sean, who marries someone else. A short time later, during WWII, she meets and marries a soldier stationed near her home. George leaves her with his family, whom she hardly knows, when he goes overseas. Their son is one year old when he returns. After their three children are grown, she divorces him and struggles to make a life for herself. She marries John, a veteran of the same war, and finds love and acceptance.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Barbara, born in Texas and raised in California, struggles for acceptance from early childhood. Her earliest memories are of Mama saying she is ugly and looks like Daddy. Daddy changes jobs frequently, so she never attends the same school for long, and always feels like an outsider. When they move to California during the depression, the kids make fun of her clothes and she gets a poor grade in English. "Because you talks like a Texan," the teacher explains. They move to Oregon when she is a sophomore in high school, and she makes friends there. She is beginning to feel accepted when they move back to California. In her teens, she falls in love with Sean, who marries someone else. A short time later, during WWII, she meets and marries a soldier stationed near her home. George leaves her with his family, whom she hardly knows, when he goes overseas. Their son is one year old when he returns. After their three children are grown, she divorces him and struggles to make a life for herself. She marries John, a veteran of the same war, and finds love and acceptance.

Biographie de l'auteur

She loved to read and dreamed of being a published writer. Her school teachers praised her writing. The professor of her creative writing class in college said she knew more about writing than he did. He especially liked the way her stories related to real life. A story she wrote for class was published in the college magazine. After graduating she continued to write stories based on family history and her own experiences. She submitted stories to magazines and after many rejections she had a few stories accepted by The Story teller magazine. She took writing courses by mail and decided she would like to combine some of her writing into a novel. Out of Texas is the result.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1418449970
ISBN 13 
9781418449971
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
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