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ISBN-10: 080328621X
ISBN-13: 9780803286214
Publisher: Bison Books
Publish Date: 10/01/2004
Dimensions: 7.84" L, 5.20" W, 0.46" H

Yonnondio: From the Thirties

Introduction by: Linda Ray Pratt

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Price: $19.95

Overview

Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses and in the wretched neighborhoods of the poor in Omaha, Nebraska.

Mazie, the oldest daughter in the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook, tells the story of the family’s desire for a better life – Anna’s dream that her children be educated and Jim’s wish for a life lived out in the open, away from the darkness and danger of the mines. At every turn in their journey, however, their dreams are frustrated, and the family is jeopardized by cruel and indifferent systems.

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"[Olsen] evokes the very feel of poverty, not in the sharp-focused naturalistic detail of the muckrakers, but in broad powerful strokes of which the paint is emotion, sensation, apprehension."–New York Times Book Review
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Details

ISBN-10: 080328621X
ISBN-13: 9780803286214
Publisher: Bison Books
Publish Date: 10/01/2004
Dimensions: 7.84" L, 5.20" W, 0.46" H
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