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From November of 2011:
I just spent about six hours with The Yearling and I could happily turn to page one and spend another six hours.
Jody is a young boy, a yearling himself, if you will, who lives with his mother and father in the wilds of Florida in the early 1900’s. His mother and father are a little out-of-place in this world, both older people who finally had Jody after many miscarriages and the loss of many babies who died in infancy. Jody’s mother has become hardened by the losses but Jo ...more
I just spent about six hours with The Yearling and I could happily turn to page one and spend another six hours.
Jody is a young boy, a yearling himself, if you will, who lives with his mother and father in the wilds of Florida in the early 1900’s. His mother and father are a little out-of-place in this world, both older people who finally had Jody after many miscarriages and the loss of many babies who died in infancy. Jody’s mother has become hardened by the losses but Jo ...more
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