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The Growing Seasons: An American Boyhood Before the War
The Growing Seasons An American Boyhood Before the War
Author: Samuel Hynes
For Americans who grew up in the 1930s, the phrase "before the war" calls up a distant time as remote from the way we live now as some foreign country. Looking back with a clear-eyed, unsentimental gaze, Samuel Hynes describes his midwestern boyhood during the lean times of the Great Depression: his father's wandering search for work; a long, ho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780142003961
ISBN-10: 0142003964
Publication Date: 2/24/2004
Pages: 304
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I loved this book from beginning.Farms have always been close to my girlhood home, and these people could of been my Aunts and Uncles. The Stable, solid and hard working personas are typical.% stars for me.


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