White Bird Flying

Klappentext Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of "A White Bird Flying," leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes. Zusammenfassung Talks about the descendants of the Scotch and German settlers of the great Nebraskan plains! the spirit of healthy morality and calm contentment that is characteristic of these people.

Product details

• Authors: Bess Streeter Aldrich
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1988
• EAN: 9780803259157
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-5915-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Bison Book S; Bison Book S
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies