The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - Brossura

Ryan, Terry

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ISBN 10: 0743211235 ISBN 13: 9780743211239

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Riassunto

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Evelyn's winning ways defied the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. To her, flouting convention was a small price to pay when it came to raising her six sons and four daughters.
Graced with a rare appreciation for life's inherent hilarity, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for fun and profit. The story of this irrepressible woman, whose clever entries are worthy of Erma Bombeck, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash, is told by her daughter Terry with an infectious joy that shows how a winning spirit will always triumph over poverty.

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Judith Stone O Magazine A good-natured memoir as compelling as a commercial jingle.

Book of the Week People Nabs first prize in the memoir genre.

The New Yorker This plucky middle American chronicle, starring an unsinkable, relentlessly resourceful mother and her Madison Avenue-style magic, succeeds on many levels -- as a tale of family spirit triumphing over penury, as a history of mid-century American consumerism, and as a memoir about a woman who was both ahead of her time and unable to escape it.

L'autore:

Terry Ryan, the sixth of Evelyn Ryan's ten children, is the writing half of T. O. Sylvester, a long-running cartoon in the San Francisco Chronicle. The author of two books of poetry, she lives in San Francisco and can be reached at www.theprizewinner.com.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743211235
• ISBN 13: 9780743211239
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352