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yonnondio - from the thirtiesby olsen, tillie
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Book DescriptionTrade Paperback. Some Marks in Body of Text. All books in VG or better condition. Book summaryTillie Olsen began this novel in 1932, when she was nineteen. It remains unfinished, but is no less powerful because of that. It is a classic story of poverty and struggle during the Depression, of the sufferings of real, believable human beings, and of the attempt of one woman to improve the lot of her family.Media Reviews"I was going back and reading ^Yonnondio^ when I found these fragments. I really mourned I hadn't been able to finish it in the '30s. I was very close, in many ways because I was so young, to my own childhood, and shaping and growing up....You know who loves this book? Those who have had it so hard they see themselves reflected in it. Sometimes it's the ones who have gone back to school in their twenties or fifties, or have given it to their parents with a better sense of what they must have gone through." -- Tillie Olsen, Washington Post Book World Publisher NotesYONNONDIO tells the story of the Holbrook family as they migrate from coal-mining town to farm to industrial city, struggling for a more tolerable existence. Their lives, made unforgettably real, reveal both the maiming power of circumstance and the sources of human endurance and hope. Anna Holbrook, the mother of the family, emerges as one of the most believable and enduring women in American literature. Although set in the Depression era of the thirties, this is a book both timeless and hauntingly timely. "The story of the Holbrook family as they migrate from coal-mining town to farm to industrial city, struggling for a more tolerable existence. Their lives, made unforgettably real, reveal both the maiming power of circumstance and the sources of human endurance and hope ..."--P. (4) of cover. Other Recommended Books
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