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Chargement... An Owl on Every Postpar Sanora Babb
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Good account of growing up and living on an isolated Colorado farm. ( ) “Another enrichment from our days on the plains that my sister and I share to this day is a sense of wonder as part of our love for nature. What may have appeared a desolation to others, certainly to our mother, never seemed so to us. In all that flat treeless grassland, there were modest wildflowers, rough weeds, and fragrant sagebrush many wild creatures, wolves, coyotes, wildcats, skunks, badgers, prairie dogs, snakes, birds, especially the meadowlarks with their nests on the ground and their beautiful songs.” Sanora Babb’s memoir of her early years on the high plains of the Colorado frontier, in the 1910s, when she and her parents, sister, and grandfather lived in a one-room dugout shelter. Her father was restless and desired an independent life. He moved the family to from Oklahoma to Colorado to join his father in farming broomcorn. The family interactions are realistically drawn. The prose is evocative. It is a story of harsh weather, hunger, loneliness, and survival. I can also recommend Babb’s novel of the Great Depression: Whose Names Are Unknown. While the rest of the country was becoming more urban, with telephones, motorcars and electricity becoming commonplace, Babb's family decided to emulate Laura Ingalls (Wilder)'s family and spend several years breaking sod, suffering scurvy and living 5 in a one-room dugout severely isolated from schools or neighbors in eastern Colorado. I found it a bleak read, though some readers find it heartwarming, and the Babbs did, after all, survive. "[It was a] wild, lonesome land. And still we stayed. It laid its claim on our deepest mind while we but claimed its earth." The author draws on her childhood memories to recount a difficult, poor upbringing in the southeastern plains of Colorado. Told from a candid, child’s perspective, the reader is transported into the family’s dugout shack during the dust bowl and Depression-era. It is a very moving account from this little-known, but fascinating author. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Sanora Babb experienced pioneer life in a one-room dugout, eye-level with the land that supported, tormented and beguiled her; where her family fought for their lives against drought, crop-failure, starvation, and almost unfathomless loneliness. Learning to read from newspapers that lined the dugout's dirt walls, she grew up to be a journalist, then a writer of unforgettable books about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, most notably Whose Names Are Unknown. The author was seven when her parents began to homestead an isolated 320-acre farm on the western plains. She tells the story through her eyes as a sensitive, fearless young girl who came to love the wind, the vastness, the mystery and magic in the ordinary. This evocative memoir of a pioneer childhood on the Great Plains is written with the lyricism and sensitivity that distinguishes all of Sanora Babb's writing. An Owl on Every Post, with its environmental disasters, extreme weather, mortgage foreclosures, and harsh living conditions, resonates as much today as when it first appeared. What this true story of Sanora's prairie childhood reveals best are the values - courage, pride, determination, and love - that allowed her family to prevail over total despair"--Amazon.com book description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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