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For Americans who grew up in the 1930s, the phrase "before the war" calls up a distant time as remote from the way we live now as some foreign country. Looking back with a clear-eyed, unsentimental gaze, Samuel Hynes describes his midwestern boyhood during the lean times of the Great... read more

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The summer my father got married I lived on a farm.

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  1. Samuel Hynes (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
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Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0670031933
Page Count: 320

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