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An Appalachian Childhood

David Osborne

出版	Williams, Publishers, 2006
主題	Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN	18788537759781878853776
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=m0PMAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"In this moving memoir, author David Osborne brings to life, in its full depth and texture, the hard experience and carefree joys of growing up in Appalachia. In a homeplace that the family referred to simply as 'The Hollow' [holler], Osborne and his twelve brothers and sisters worked tirelessly alongside their father, Steve, and mother, Thelma, to coax-- or, perhaps, force-- a living from the hills, mountains and valleys they lived among. 'We all had full-time, year-round jobs,' Osborne remembers. 'The kind of work we did may have varied from season to season, but the work itself was always there.' It's all there in An Appalachian Childhood: the cane grindings, the hog killings, the tall stories, the hard times and the good times. Above all, there are the relentless efforts of rambunctious, irrepressible children to amuse themselves in spite of everything life could throw against them. Those who love family, who love rural America, will find much to linger over, to remember, and to enjoy in the pages of this book." -- Provided by publisher.