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| #34338 in Books | 2008-06-10 | 2008-06-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.83 x5.31l, | File type: PDF | 368 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Grim times, bright women|By Happy Customer|A believable story of one family's survival of the Great Depression in Texas. Ever since the movie "Giant," there is a tendency for stories about women and Texas to follow a kind of pattern. This breaks the pattern. Writer Paulette Jiles is known for her deep research and it shows here. There is little sentiment, and a whole lot of pra|From Publishers Weekly|Jiles's eloquent, engaging sophomore novel celebrates four strong women toughing out the Great Depression in the Texas dust bowl. As the book opens in 1927, Elizabeth Stoddard and husband Jack have three daughters: the pretty Mayme, the to
Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks. But in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, the family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated when a questionable "accident" leaves the girls and their...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Stormy Weather: A Novel | Paulette Jiles. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
