The Best Six Years of Any LifeFriesenPress, 2010 - 128 pages This personal memoir of the author's early childhood takes place on a farm in southwestern Michigan during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It is told through the eyes of a small child who is just beginning to experience life with all its adventures, discoveries, and disappointments. It is a story of loving parents, uncommon neighbors, supportive relatives, first friends, and a small town in postwar America. |
Table des matières
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 7 |
Section 3 | 13 |
Section 4 | 17 |
Section 5 | 33 |
Section 6 | 37 |
Section 7 | 45 |
Section 8 | 49 |
Section 11 | 81 |
Section 12 | 87 |
Section 13 | 93 |
Section 14 | 99 |
Section 15 | 103 |
Section 16 | 107 |
Section 17 | 113 |
Section 18 | 117 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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