- History, Depressions, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939, Social conditions
"The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Timothy Egan
- First published
- December 14, 2005
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, HarperCollins Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780547347776
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“ON THOSE DAYS when the wind stops blowing across the face of the southern plains, the land falls into a silence that scares people in the way that a big house can haunt after the lights go out and no one else is there.”
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