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Hardscrabble Days, EPUB eBook

Hardscrabble Days EPUB

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Joey Spencers world, Depression plagued, rural, eastern North Carolina, is a world of limited possibilities, narrow horizons, and strong personalities. It is an era when the mere idea of indoor plumbing or TV is science fiction, but the arrival of the bookmobile or Swindells grocery truck is a much-anticipated treat.

Against this background of unique time and place Joeys story unfolds. Some of his experiences are universal the death of a beloved pet, first fumbling attempts at seduction, a sons struggle to please his father but all are freshly seen through Joeys eyes and vivid imagination.

Neighbors and family influence young Joey. Miss Sylvia fills her days with radio serials and the Sears and Roebuck catalog, dreaming of a better life. Valerie has dreams, too -- dreams of killing her abusive father. Malcolm Tetterton hates children, but wants to adopt one to please his wife. And within Joeys family, Arthur Lee walks the brink of madness, Uncle Harold has a shameful secret, and Molly, Joeys mother, has secrets of her own.

Joey shares with the reader the joys and sorrows of his loss of innocence and coming of age during Hardscrabble Days.

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