| An inspiring, upbeat novel of a manwho fought through the Depression tosave his family and his own self-respectand of a boy who lived throught it tobecome a man as bittersweet andwinning as the Walton saga. In 1931 Braz Marvin, like millions 6fAmericans, found himself out of workis a fireman on the once prosperous Frisco" Railroad. With the days ofstready paychecks achingly distant, theMarvins find brutal, backbreakingwork in the cotton fields, a sharecrop-pers shack for a home...and eachother. They are undaunted by the near-deadly malarial fevers, and their simplepleasures shimmer like small perfectdiamonds-the big Snnday meals withall the families,the delights of hog-killin time, Christmas with its singledelectable orange, arid young Tom ssurprise victory over adults in a eoun-try spelling bee. |
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