- Fiction, Saving and investment, Chairs, Family life
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
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Earnest, intimate, classical in form and spare.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Vera B. Williams, Susan Rybin
- First published
- January 1940
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Greenwillow Books, Amer School Pub, Live Oak Media
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Chinese, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780874993356
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First sentence
“My mother works as a waitress in the Blue Tile Diner.”
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