Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessnessall the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the center of this powerful, popular American classic,...
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Jul 19, 2011
Chris
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Earl Thompson is a relatively unknown American writer, which is a shame, as he penned a handful of books before his untimely death that are as good as anything created by his peers. A Garden of Sand is one of my contender's for the Great American Novel, a semi-autobiographical story set in the desperate, illusion-shattering years of the Great Depression amongst those who lived their life close to the soil that had been the lifeblood of American prosperity. A boy is left with his grandparents in
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Nov 19, 2011
wally
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picked this one the other day....and here i go! 11/12/11....woooo....cue the twilight zone soundtrack!
like has been said elsewhere it is unfortunate that this man's stories are not better known. this one reads easy, haven't had to do a lot of double-backing and even when that happens it is as much the problem of our time as it is the story...maybe even more so.
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like has been said elsewhere it is unfortunate that this man's stories are not better known. this one reads easy, haven't had to do a lot of double-backing and even when that happens it is as much the problem of our time as it is the story...maybe even more so.
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Aug 01, 2007
"Raw". How an author has the courage to write something like this is beyond me. This is the first of four books by Earl Thompson. He followed this with "Tattoo" and "Caldo Largo." The fourth book, which I did read and cannot recall the title, was a complete departure from the first three in every way save that it, too, was autobigraphical. His descriptions of life during the Depression are incedibly vivid and real. Thompson died not long after the fourth book
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Dec 21, 2010
Vanessa
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one of the craziest books i've ever read. not for the faint of heart but i somehow couldn't put it down.
Dec 29, 2010
Craig
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Full of sex and description of depression era Kansas, this is a great book by a great author.
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