Orphans Song
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: July 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781412071598
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; General; 1-4120-7159-3,1412071593,05-2054,052054,Trafford,John R. Downes,Orphans Song,orphan,orphan train,chapin hall,depression of 1929,roaring 20\'s,chicago,jazz age,vaudeville,talkies,herbert hoover,calvin coolidge,dust bowl; Fiction / General; Fiction - General
First sentence: The startlingly beautiful, seven year old girl with a porcelain doll complexion and flowing, brunette hair stood on the wintry platform at Chicago's Union Station between her mother and nine year old brother, Kenneth, gripping their gloved hands, and watched the arriving passenger train from New York City cast billowing clouds of steam and screech deafening sounds as it chugged slowly past her preparing to stop.