| #60517 in Books | Bison Books | 1992-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x.67 x5.32l,.75 | File type: PDF | 306 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An enjoyable read.|By Customer|After reading Tisha, it reminded me of the book "Winter Wheat", which I remembered Dad reading parts of this to Mom & me in 1997, which he often did as I sat knitting, and Mom doing hand sewing. He had worked in he wheat fields of Montana as a young man. So, he really enjoyed it. I regretfully gave my Dad's book away years ago, and wanted to||With an arid "dry-land" wheat farm as both its geographic and metaphoric center, Winter Wheat tells the story of eighteen-year-old Ellen Webb. Her Vermont-born father and Russian-born mother, married during the first World War, have come as homesteaders
For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, within the space of a year and a half. But what a year and a half it is!" Welch offers a brief biography of Walker, ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Winter Wheat | Mildred Walker. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
