Bess Streeter Aldrich
Birth date: February 17, 1881
Died: August 03, 1954
Bess Streeter Aldrich's Books
Found this by accident and holy heck! I liked it! It's funny! (I did cringe a little at Sam carrying Jory out of the bank, though)
This book was OK..As Willa Cather is my favorite author, I was looking for similiar authors. BSA isn't quite it..I enjoyed the book, but that was the end of it.
Sweet but pale in comparison with A Lantern In Her Hand.
I cried the whole way through this book. It's a powerful, unsentimental survey of a pioneer woman's life. I confess to being impatient with Abbie's continual self-denial, and cranky when she claimed that age 45 was "too late" to learn anything new, but that's a minor quibble. The sweep and swing of ...
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