The river home
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Dorothy Weil.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Weil, Dorothy, 1929-; Weil, Dorothy, 1929- -- Family; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Rivers -- United States
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The River Home takes the reader into a world few ever glimpse, that of America's riverboats. In this fast-paced narrative with incisive characterizations and dialogue, Dorothy Weil introduces us to a vivid milieu and a gallery of fascinating people. We meet her father, a "wild river man from the Kentucky hills," her mother, "a proper girl from a Cincinnati Dutch clan," and her brother, a fourth-generation river man.

We follow along as the family struggles to survive on the river in the midst of the Great Depression."--BOOK JACKET.