Harry's Lot - Couverture souple

Springer, Tom

 
9781420885873: Harry's Lot
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1420885871 ISBN 13 : 9781420885873
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

Harry Jobber has run smack into reality and he was ill prepared for the meeting. Harry has drifted in his comfort zone and been content there much too long. He has become more of a kid than his own two children. He has become a fanatic on religious devotion and wants something going on at his church for the children of the community. He can hardly wait until his oldest child graduates from college so he, Henry, can come home to run the family business. Harry envisions his life growing much easier whereby he can help the kids fly their kites, the very young sail their little boats on his pond and fill the church with the young teenagers. He has very little ambition for himself. But Harry has an ungrateful wife that wants to move up in society. She is a fanatic about attending various clubs in the community where she can rub shoulders with the elite. She expresses dissatisfaction with their comfortable old home and wants to go to the suburbs. Harry dreads hearing of such a thing and certainly attempts to discourage any move. He cannot win an argument with his dominating wife.When the hard times come and they certainly do, Harry seems better equipped to face the future than his wife who has escaped poverty one time and wants nothing further to do with returning. Gertrude, the wife, is not happy with her lot and strains to make Harry into the man she thinks she wants. She wants affluence that she can touch. Harry just wants to live and let live in a world of his own. But the very hard time come.There is some beautiful poetry sprinkled throughout the novel.

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Biographie de l'auteur

I was born in Lawrence County Tennessee on September 15, 1934. I was the last of eight children and my early years were times of little money due to the "Great Depression." Lack of finances may have crimped the niceties of life but there was generally plenty of food available from the farm. There were always some reading materials around my home. Literature seemed to provide a dreamy escape from the fields of agriculture. Cotton was raised for the money crop along with some peanuts and potatoes. We had hogs for family consumption and for selling cured meat in Lawrenceburg and around the communities. I will say that being the baby of the family I got the thickest gravy and all the hand me down male clothes I needed. I can only remember love in that big dark home in my early days. Electricity had not come our way at that time and we read by coal oil lamps. I attended Fall River elementary school near by. It was then that I rode the old school bus to high school. I finished high school at Lawrence County High School in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, Martin College at Pulaski, Tennessee and Middle Tennessee State at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.I taught elementary school, spent time in military service and did some manufacturing work before settling down to my life's occupation. The main work of my life was for the State of Tennessee with the Department of Public Welfare, later called Human Services. I retired from that job in January 1997 with a little less than forty years of accumulated service with the State. But went back to work at the same work place on two occasions. My jobs over more than thirty-five years just about covered all the work areas of the Department with most of the years being the administrative head of the local office. I enjoyed this work greatly because I loved the people with which I worked and the cliental.My early years were greatly influenced by the rural community in which I lived in those days of very little money. The church was also a main influenc

Présentation de l'éditeur

Harry Jobber has run smack into reality and he was ill prepared for the meeting. Harry has drifted in his comfort zone and been content there much too long. He has become more of a kid than his own two children. He has become a fanatic on religious devotion and wants something going on at his church for the children of the community. He can hardly wait until his oldest child graduates from college so he, Henry, can come home to run the family business. Harry envisions his life growing much easier whereby he can help the kids fly their kites, the very young sail their little boats on his pond and fill the church with the young teenagers. He has very little ambition for himself. But Harry has an ungrateful wife that wants to move up in society. She is a fanatic about attending various clubs in the community where she can rub shoulders with the elite. She expresses dissatisfaction with their comfortable old home and wants to go to the suburbs. Harry dreads hearing of such a thing and certainly attempts to discourage any move. He cannot win an argument with his dominating wife.When the hard times come and they certainly do, Harry seems better equipped to face the future than his wife who has escaped poverty one time and wants nothing further to do with returning. Gertrude, the wife, is not happy with her lot and strains to make Harry into the man she thinks she wants. She wants affluence that she can touch. Harry just wants to live and let live in a world of his own. But the very hard time come.There is some beautiful poetry sprinkled throughout the novel.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1420885871
ISBN 13 
9781420885873
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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