The growing seasons
an American boyhood before the war
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Word Count
72,750 words, Guess
Page Count
291 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3708018M
- ISBN-100670031933
- OCLC Control Number51717008
- OCLC Control Numbergrowingseasons00hyne
- Library of Congress Control Number2003283017
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- LibraryThing733129
- Goodreads1100840
Classifications
- DDC973.91/092
- LCCCT275.H94 A3 2003
- DDCB
Alternate Titles
- American boyhood before the war
Description
It´s an endearing story of what it felt to be growing up in the late20s and 30s and gives a splendid idea of whag USA was in those long ago days. The book is nostalgic and at times ver funny. The author has a knack for painting life size pictures of those he lived with in those days.And when he has to, he is so realistic that some portraits may sound cruel. It is a book to enjoy hugely, and even if one didn´t live in the States in those years, you will relivd his own, rewarding boyhood years.
Description
"For Americans who grew up in the 1930s, the phrase "before the war" calls up a distant time as remote from the way we live now as some foreign country. Those years of the Great Depression were lean ones for most Americans; jobs were scarce and nobody had any money. But all was not struggle and hardship; it was also a time of innocence, kindness, and generosity. It is this special time that Samuel Hynes, a distinguished scholar and wartime Marine pilot, captures in this lyrical, lucid memoir of his midwestern boyhood.". "Born in 1924, Hynes grew up in cities and towns and on farms around the country, following his father to wherever there was work, and eventually to Minneapolis. Though Hynes's family lived through hard times, he remembers his early years as a golden stretch of opportunities and discoveries. Looking back with a clear-eyed, unsentimental gaze, he describes the rough and tumble games in back alleys, a long hot summer on a farm, the temptations of sex, stealing, and drinking, and the wonder of falling in love for the first time. Here too are deeply etched portraits of his widowed father and the feisty widow he brought home to be stepmother to his sons. Hynes's new memoir recaptures what came before the war he fought in: his dreams, his adventures, his sins and triumphs."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genres
- Biography.
- Personal narratives, American.
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