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The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio : how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less / Terry Ryan ; foreword by Suze Orman.
- Title
- The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio : how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less / Terry Ryan ; foreword by Suze Orman.
- Author
- Ryan, Terry.
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | CT275.R8964 A3 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 351 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The contester -- Rhyme does pay -- Supermarket spree -- The sleeping giant -- Father of the year -- Too damned happy -- Defiance -- Tickle hills -- Poet laureate -- Giant steps -- Name that sandwich -- The affadaisies -- Round robin -- Going, going, gone -- Hell and high water -- Mrs. Etchie -- Such a thing as destiny -- Rock bottom -- Her weight in gold -- A truckload of birds.
- ISBN
- 0743211227
- LCCN
- ^^2001018379
- OCLC
- 45806413
- SCSB-12243444
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library