Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Kalish, Mildred Armstrong
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0553804952
- ISBN 13
- 9780553804959
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Bantam, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 5x0x8. In Very Good+ condition and Very Good+ dustjacket. Filled with recipes and how-tos for everything from catching and skinning a rabbit to preparing homemade skin and hair beautifiers, apple cream pie, and the worldâs best head cheese (start by scrubbing the head of the pig until it is pink and clean), Little Heathens portrays a world of hardship and hard work tempered by simple rewards. There was the unsurpassed flavor of tender new dandelion greens harvested as soon as the snow melted; the taste of crystal clear marble-sized balls of honey robbed from a bumblebee nest; the sweet smell from the body of a lamb sleeping on sun-warmed grass; and the magical quality of oat shocking under the light of a full harvest moon.Little Heathens offers a loving but realistic portrait of a hearty-handshake Methodist family that gave its members a remarkable legacy of kinship, kindness, and remembered pleasures. Recounted in a luminous narrative filled with tenderness and humor, Kalishâs memoir of her childhood shows how the right stuff can make even the bleakest of times seem like quite a romp.
Synopsis
Mildred Kalish is a retired professor of English who grew up in Garrison, Iowa, and taught at several colleges, including the University of Iowa, Adelphi University, and Suffolk Community College. She now lives with her husband in northern California. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2020023064
- Title
- Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
- Author
- Kalish, Mildred Armstrong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0553804952
- ISBN 13
- 9780553804959
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 5x0x8
- X weight
- 15 oz
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