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The Fields Of Home (Paperback) Loot Price: R419
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The Fields Of Home (Paperback)

Ralph Moody

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The author's share of hardships - and heartthrobs - revealed in Little Britches and Man of the Family continue when the family, moved from Colorado to the East, send him to Maine to work on his grandfather's farm. Thomas Gould, stubborn, crabby, cussed ugly, maddens the boy with his constant scolding and criticisms but Uncle Levi's well spaced visits persuade him to put up with the old man, to humor him and to make him happy by helping with the run down farm. Moving, scything, bees, screen doors, cows and calves, machinery - Grampa's boy is always a "tarnal fool" in his handling of them. Millie, the housekeeper, runs away, as does Ralph, and Levi is hard put to get them both back. Rewards come however when a new barn is planned, potatoes, corn and strawberries are added, Yella Colt, the fractious old horse, is gentled and Grampa is proud of his grandson's ability and ingenuity in tackling the man-sized problems and challenges the old place presents. Quite a portrait of a progenitor and of a youth, confronted by antagonistic age, contriving a happy relationship in spite of all difficulties. The same appeal of the earlier books for a wide audience. (Kirkus Reviews)
The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have been all right in Colorado were always getting me in trouble." So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in Maine, where he finds a new set of adventures. Purchase the audio edition.

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Imprint: Bison Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 1993
First published: 1993
Authors: Ralph Moody
Dimensions: 203 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8194-3
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
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LSN: 0-8032-8194-3
Barcode: 9780803281943

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