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Chargement... Growing an Inch (Fiction)par Stanley Gordon West
![]() Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. ![]() Donny Cunningham is 4'11" at age 17 but that doesn't stop him from living and enjoying life. As the oldest of 4 kids in a home without a mother (she's recently died suddenly) he works 3 jobs, cooks, and "helps raise" his siblings. His Dad is kind and well-meaning but has started to drink after his wife's death. There are tough times (involvement with a "nazi" from Social Services, gangsters pursuing the Dad for bad debts, a girl who is too tall for Donny) but there are good times, too, in this loving, tight-knit Catholic family. This book is old fashioned in every good way. For the reader who doesn't mind visiting the ethos of the 1930s (gosh!) this is an uplifting story with plenty of pathos and adventure. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
1949 A story about a boy who made a solemn vow and became a man keeping it. Saint Paul/Minneapolis - Those unforgettable days after World War II when people turned back to their personal lives with optimism, a time of Fibber McGee and Molly , newsreels, milkmen, boogie-woogie, The Best Years of Our Lives and chrome grilled automobiles. Against this evocative backdrop, Staley West composes this heartrending song, bittersweet lyrics that will lift your spirit, touch your heart and leave you humming... wishing it wouldn't end. In one fateful moment, Donny Cunningham comes face to face with unthinkable horror, when his live caves in on him. Changed forever. The task of raising his brothers and sister falls to him when his mother dies. A senior at St. Paul Central, he does whatever it takes to keep his family together, while his father leads them ever closer to disaster. Surrounded aby his zany and lionhearted siblings, his fun-loving friends, and hoping to find love and understanding from his high school sweetheart, Donny is caught between the law -- which has a claim on his young brother -- and the gangsters -- who have a claim on his father. This humor and daring and grit, he fights the dragon of regret with an inner courage and strength that belies his physical stature. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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![]() GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:![]()
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