Stormy weather
By: by Paulette Jiles
Publisher: Magna; Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780750530071
Subjects: Depressions; Fatherless families; Fiction; Poor families; Social conditions
Description: After the death of her husband, Jack, Elizabeth Stoddard and her three daughters are left destitute and must return to the abandoned family farm in Texas. Struggling to make ends meet they place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well and on the back of Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe.
Notes: Originally published: New York: William Morrow, 2007; London: Fourth Estate, 2008.