Lawrence Svobida
Autore di Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas
Opere di Lawrence Svobida
Empire Of Dust an 1 copia
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- male
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 43
- Popolarità
- #352,016
- Voto
- 4.4
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- 1
- ISBN
- 2
Svobida faced all this alone, having no family in this period, working the farm himself for the most part, always ready to help a neighbour. Once they might have made a film from this story, the sort of role that Tom Hanks would play so well. In a sense nothing happens in this story, but you realize after a long while - it creeps up on you - that the simple persistence of Svobida´s humanity and determination is the extraordinary thing, more so for him making nothing special of it. There´s all sorts of good reasons to get hold of this book and read it, I can´t recommend it too highly.… (altro)