| A Garden of Sand Contributor(s): Thompson, Earl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786709464 ISBN-13: 9780786709465 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers OUR PRICE: $25.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness -- all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the center of this powerful, popular American classic, yet still he prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, Jacky nurtures his spirit of independence, his capacity to love, and his faith in a nation's dream in a journey that takes him from Wichita to Corpus Christi and from poverty to possibility. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Thompson, Earl |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.07" W x 8.08" (1.52 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness-all the odds stand against Jacky Anderson, the young boy who struggles toward his adolescence in this powerful, popular American classic. Yet despite the hardships and hard times of the novel's Depression-era Kansas, Jacky prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, on a journey that takes him from Wichita to Corpus Christi with his hapless mother and abusive stepfather, he nurtures his spirit of independence and capacity to love. Never failing to "tough it out" in his passage through the seedy worlds of the disappointed and dispossessed, Jacky may not escapr poverty but he does discover the possibility that lies in a nation's dream. |