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Others had it worse : sour dock, moonshine, and hard times in Davis County, Iowa /
In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Cover...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Bur oak book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Covert had recorded her younger life in rural Iowa between 1920 and 1929. Writing about herself from the ages of four to thirteen, Vetra Covert sent a simple message back to her grandson: "That's just the way it was. Others had it worse. We got by." |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (124 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124). |
| ISBN: | 1609382072 9781609382070 |