This Stubborn Soil
Published 20 years ago and long out of print, this memoir is classic Americana that deserves renewed attention. It is a story of poverty and a family's struggle to stay together; of a youth's efforts to get an education. Pin Hook, in rural East Texas, was home to the Owens famiy. It was an isolated, unproductive farming community where everybody was dirt-poor and many were illiterate; where schooling took a back seat to working in the fields, and travel was by horse and wagon. The author came of age in the first quarter of this century, in a family of women who had lost most of their men; his only male relatives were brothers, an uncle and a cousin. This is a timeless portrait of growing up in America warm, funny, sadand when young William passes his college entrance examination, the reader is as elated as he is. (OctoberCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.