Download or read book Uphill All the Way A Memoir of a Depression Era Family Their Trials Tribulations and Triumphs written by James Sloter and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was near the end of February 1944. A light snow was falling as our family of six and a dog started out in our 1935 Ford. The tires were almost bald and there was a third of the steering wheel missing. The trailer behind was a modified shell of a travel trailer. It was loaded with the bare necessities to set up housekeeping nearly two thousand miles away. We were moving from Kanawha, Iowa to Yakima, Washington to seek our fortune picking fruit in the fruit-rich Yakima Valley." UPHILL ALL THE WAY, a collection of sixty-seven short stories, is a first hand account of the life of the author's family and their struggles through the Great Depression and World War II, and their eventual triumph. The circumstances they endured, some beyond their control and some created by the choices they made along the way, provided rich experiences for their family and does the same for the reader.The author's father suffered ill health the last twelve years of his life. It was during this time that the author spent many hours with his father and heard, for the first time, several of the stories told in this book. After his father died, the author had many visits with his mother to get a better understanding of his parents' lives before they were married and to clarify some of the things he remembered from his youth, taking notes and recording it all in the form of short stories. The end result is an unusual collection of poignant vignettes that draw the reader in and make the pages turn.More than 2,000 copies have been sold.Here are some comments from readers.* "UPHILL ALL THE WAY" By James Sloter."Anyone who grew up in small-town Iowa and especially those who grew up right after the Great Depression will find something to relate to in James Sloter's stories about the obstacles his parents overcame in raising their family in Iowa." Ellen Heath, Homegrown Writing, The Des Moines Register and Tribune. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested." "OF STUDIES" ESSAYS II, Francis Bacon (1561-1626)"Thanks, Jim, for the copy of "UPHILL ALL THE WAY". We are 'digesting it'.The book signing was such fun-we'll do it again for the sequel!"Claudia Warner, Administrator: Algona Public Library, Algona, Iowa"You asked me to tell you what I thought of your book "UPHILL ALL THE WAY". You said that you rewrote each story several times to 'make it flow'. Does it ever flow! WOW!"Betty Shipman, Corwith News editor, Corwith, Iowa"I just finished "UPHILL ALL THE WAY". It was wonderful. I would like to buy ten copies for my book club." Peg Williams, Minneapolis, MN"This check is for five more copies of your fascinating book. Thank you very much for the privilege of reading it." Kent Ryerson, Norwalk, IA"I just finished reading your book. I enjoyed it so much." Delores Huse, Pharr, TX"I enjoyed your book so much and am passing it around for all my family to read."Maxine S., Dixon, IL"I hope your travels through Iowa and book-signings have been successful. I have finished your book-enjoyed it very much-it has us reminiscing about our own youth." Pearl White, Sioux Falls, SD"Your book was interesting reading and factual, as I can really remember doing many of the things you mentioned doing in your childhood. The one difference though is that you were loved and you knew it. I was fed and clothed, but I never felt loved the way you were. Your book is well written and in good order & people of a later day than the 30's-40's should find it interesting and educational.""Best wishes for a successful playwright."Gordon Templeton, Lincoln, NE"Please send me a copy of your book 'Uphill All The Way'. I started reading it at my mother's and would like my own personal copy." Billie May, Waldo, WI

Download or read book An Appalachian Boy s Life written by Flem R. Messer and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since my retirement in 2009, I have taken a great deal of time to look back on the past 81 years of my life. I have had an extraordinary variety of experiences going back to a world of almost no education in one-room schools, which I dropped out of in the fourth grade at age 15. We were totally dependent on the land because that is where we grew and harvested almost all of our food with the help of mule-drawn plows and wood burning stove to prepare what we ate. Even though I was born in 1935, the experiences of my life have spanned three centuries. During the first 10 years of my life, the way we lived was no different than the way my great grandparents lived who were born in the 1860s. There were no modern conveniences of any kind during the first 10 to 15 years of my life. Unlike most of what has been written about the Appalachian communities, ours was a cooperative barter society where people worked together and always helped each other when there was a need. I am extremely fortunate to now live in a world where I can speak my memories into a microphone and my computer automatically converts them into typed text. I have had the opportunity to know and work with many wonderful people down through the decades. Unfortunately, most of my childhood friends never had the opportunity to explore the world the way I have been privileged to do.

Download or read book The Great Deformation written by David Stockman and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Michigan congressman and member of the Reagan administration describes how interference in the financial markets has contributed to the national debt and has damaging and lasting repercussions.

Download or read book They Never Threw Anything Away Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived It written by Ed Linz and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and informative collection of first-hand accounts of life during the Great Depression....includes over 30 photographs and interviews with 22 Americans who lived (and survived) that challenging era of American history.

Download or read book The Boys of Summer written by Roger Kahn and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.

Download or read book Uphill All the Way written by John Hawkridge and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Glad Farm written by Catherine Marenghi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliciting comparisons to "The Glass Castle" and the works of Elena Ferrante, "Glad Farm" is a stunning new memoir that readers can't put down. Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Catherine Marenghi begins her life in poverty and isolation, but is propelled forward by the love and support of her family. A decade after leaving home at the age of seventeen, she is a successful journalist with the means to buy her family their first decent house. But the past will not be put to rest so easily. Catherine unravels a web of long-buried family secrets, and a terrible betrayal that robbed her family of the home that was rightfully theirs. And she finally learns the story her parents never shared: the gladiolus farm that was once their dream. At once lyrical and raw, unflinching in its detail, "Glad Farm" is an iconic American story of renewal and reinvention, and the mythic power of a house to define our destiny.

Download or read book That s the Way It Was written by Virginia Nielsen Lindow and published by MavenMark Books. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Family Silver written by Sharon O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice offers a detailed account of her struggle with depression, a battle that took her on a quest to understand its origins and her discovery, in her family's past, of the pressures and possibilities of American culture and how one generation of her family shaped another.

Download or read book The Inexplicable Survival of a Happily Fallible Child written by Gary C Mele Jr and published by 978-0-9994989-5-8. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the loss of his father at the age of four, Gary develops a full reliance on his mother. She is cunning and resilient, but hopelessly devoted to the same destructive family members responsible for the failure of her marriage. Husbandless and pregnant with her third child, Gary's mom manages to take her small stopgap family from living in a car in a beach parking lot to a boarding house where she meets the man who will be the father of her next two children. Evictions and cut utilities force move after move from neighboring towns to different states. As the growing family relocates, neglect and abuse from relatives and family friends shadow the children's lives. The chaotic existence, including the presence of an uncle and step-father in and out of prison and an alcoholic uncle who will not leave, awaken Gary to the realization that his family is not like other families. He begins to question his mother's decisions and disappointment transitions to anger, but a bond remains between Gary and his mom. Even during the worst times, she surprises with a fiercely protective love, like when Gary is forced to come out as gay at the age of fourteen. In spite of the unhinged way of living, the family is close. Gary and his younger brothers and sisters have no real friends but each other, and, in spite of her faults, they know their mother loves them deeply. Nothing prepares them for the moment she is taken away.

Download or read book The un Lucky Sperm written by Brett Preiss and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in Broken Hill, an isolated mining town in the outback, can make or break you.Until he was seventeen, Brett Preiss-Betty, to his less forgiving friends- lived in the dusty Australian outback, where he was one of four siblings in a dysfunctional family. He learned how to survive under the most bizarre and extraordinary circumstances. In this book, he shares the trials and tribulations of his youth through anecdotes that will leave you in tears of joy or sorrow. Travel back to the '60s and '70s and watch Brett transform from a sperm to adolescent. Follow him as he has his first piano lesson, complete with Hail Marys, and receives his first sewing machine ? and his first ejaculation. Cheer him along in his struggles and triumphs until he leaves the desert and heads off to college, and find out why you should never ask him to look after your budgie. The (un)Lucky Sperm is a humorous memoir-a collection of honest, harrowing and absurd accounts. If you like stories full of sarcasm and observational humour, then you are going to love this book.

Download or read book Memoirs and Madness written by Frederick H. White and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Memoirs and Madness examines memoir as a literary genre and investigates how Leonid Andreev's posthumous legacy was influenced by the writing of his contemporaries. A Book About Leonid Andreev (1922), which includes the work of renowned Russian authors such as Belyi, Blok, Chukovskii, Chulkov, Gor'kii, Teleshov, Zaitsev, and Zamiatin, has had an impact on how Andreev has been read and spoken about since his death. While past scholarship has focused on the philosophical and sociological factors in Andreev's life, Frederick White pays special attention to the author's history of mental illness, described by the memoirists with vague terms such as "creative energy" or "inner turmoil."" --Résumé de l'éditeur.

Download or read book The Ever changing View written by Anthony Godfrey and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region"

Download or read book On Military Memoirs written by L.H.E. (Esmeralda) Kleinreesink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Caforio prize for the best book in armed forces and civil-military relations published between 2015 and 2016 In On Military Memoirs Esmeralda Kleinreesink offers insight into military books: who were their writers and publishers, what were their plots, and what motives did their authors have for writing them. Every Afghanistan war autobiography published in the US, the UK, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands between 2001 and 2010 is compared quantitatively and qualitatively. On Military Memoirs shows that soldier-authors are a special breed; that self-published books still cater to different markets than traditionally published ones; that cultural differences are clearly visible between warrior nations and non-warrior nations; that not every contemporary memoir is a disillusionment story; and that writing is serious business for soldiers wanting to change the world. The book provides an innovative example of how to use interdisciplinary, mixed-method, cross-cultural research to analyse egodocuments.

Download or read book Descent written by David Guterson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a poignant, searching memoir about one man's fall into depression in the wake of a national tragedy, and his brave struggle to return to normalcy. Like most of the country and the world, David Guterson woke up on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, not thinking history was about to change. He was in Washington, D.C., with a group of fellow writers, evaluating grant applications for the National Endowment of the Arts. But before their work day had even begun, the Pentagon was bombed; the Twin Towers were down in New York City; and havoc was wreaked irrevocably on our collective sense of happiness, security, and national pride. Scrambling to get out of the city and back home any way he could, David, along with two fellow writers, rented a car and drove 2,600 miles across the country to Seattle. But the attacks triggered something inside him, a pervasive feeling of hopelessness, fear, despair--a clinical depression that that would not go away. He lost interest in his work, family, friends--his life. Inspired by William Styron's masterful Darkness Visible, Guterson's Descent is the searing account of one man's envelopment by the darkest of human emotions, and his tunneling out. Powerful, intense, and deeply felt, it is at once personal and universally illuminating--a confession from a great literary mind who takes us on a journey of what it feels like, and means, to lose one's grasp on the world--and to find it once more, even if by fumbling in the dark.

Download or read book Uphill All the Way written by Edna Jaques and published by Saskatoon, Sask. : Western Producer Prairie Books. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Still Life written by Gillian Marchenko and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Gillian Marchenko, dealing with depression means learning to accept and treat it as a physical illness, while continuing as a wife and mother of four, two with special needs. How can she care for her family when she can't even get out of bed? Her story is real and raw, not one of quick fixes. But hope remains as she discovers that living with depression is still life.