Stories from Georgia boy, and, Maud Island
By: by Erskine Caldwell
Publisher: Avon
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction; Country life
Other titles: Georgia boy.; Maud Island.; Georgia boy
Description: In this collection of interrelated stories, twelve-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures. Playing on the tension between his hardworking, sensible mother and his disarmingly likable but shiftless and philandering father, William tells of Pa's flirtation with a widow, his swapping match with a band of gypsies, his battle of wits with a traveling silk-tie saleswoman, and his get-rich-quick schemes based on selling Ma's old love letters and collecting scrap iron.
Notes: Avon, 134.
Table of contents: title: My old man's baling machine; title: The day we rang the bell for Preacher Hawshaw; title: Handsome Brown and the aggavating goats; title: My old man and the grass widow; title: The time Ma spent the day at Aunt Bessie's; title: Handsome Brown and the shirt-tail woodpeckers; title: My old man and the gypsy queen; title: The time Handsome Brown ran away; title: My old man and pretty Sooky; title: Handsome Brown's day off; title: My old man's political appointment; title: Maud Island.