Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
1322046247
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9780822972648
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9781322046242
Content:
A realistic but fond memoir of a girlhood lived in a coal camp, or "patch" in southwestern Pennsylvania during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Icon of Spring is also a coming-of-age story. It begins in 1932 when the narrator, the child of Carpatho-Rusyn immigrant parents, is seven years old. Her father is a miner, and work is scarce as the grip of the depression tightens. The jars of canned food on the storeroom shelf are dwindling, and the family fears eviction from their small company-owned house.Icon of Spring recounts her childhood during the next seven years, as she grows to adoles
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Introduction; 1. In the Beginning; 2. Darkness at Midday; 3. And Then We Were Ten; 4. Visitors from Afar; 5. Where There's Smoke There's Gypsies; 6. Doom and Dissent; 7. Children of a Free Man; 8. Lo, the Bridegroom Cometh; 9. And Then They Were One; 10. My Man Works for the Govinment; 11. Other Authorities; 12. Levity at Last; 13. In the Garden, an Ending and a Beginning
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822937593
Additional Edition:
Print version Icon Of Spring
Language:
English
Keywords:
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