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Lädt ... A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depressionvon Dwight W. Hoover
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 4376. A Good Day's Work An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression, by Dwight W. Hoover (read 29 Oct 2007) This unpretentious account of the author's years on an Iowa farm near Dwight, Mahaska County, Iowa from his birth in 1926 till adulthood is an amazingly moving story for anyone who grew up, as I did, on an Iowa farm. I admit that every difference between his situation leaped to my attention, but there are a lot of similarities between his life and mine, even though we did not have sheep and we went in more for crops and sale of crops more than his father did. I found this a very poignant account, including his return to Iowa for his 50th high school class reunion in 1993. I do wish he had told more about his own life after he left the farm, but nevertheless I found this a compelling book, not soon to be forgotten. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Despite beautiful landscapes and bountiful harvests, farming is hard work and always has been. The Great Depression in rural America, which began in the 1920s and lasted until World War II, made it still harder. At a time when tractors were replacing horses and the family farm was giving way to the large, single-crop enterprise, the struggle to survive and modernize in a period of economic scarcity was especially sharp. In A Good Day's Work, Dwight Hoover, who grew up on an Iowa farm in this era, recalls the events of day-to-day life on a single farm, offering detailed descriptions of daily work in each of the year's four seasons. A Good Day's Work is a fascinating if grim reminder of what it was like to be a child with adult responsibilities. Mr. Hoover's unusual memoir recalls the rough edges as well as the happy moments of rural life. It is an honest re-creation of a world that was vanishing. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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