- Fiction, Labor camps, Depressions, Farmers
"This story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, Milt, Julia, their two little girls, and Milt's father, Konkie, share a life of cramped circumstances in a one-room dugout with never enough to eat.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Sanora Babb
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 222
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780806137124
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