| Bittersweet Harvest Contributor(s): Thorpe, Harold William (Author) |
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ISBN: 098964314X ISBN-13: 9780989643146 Publisher: Little Creek Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013474946 |
| Series: O'Shaughnessy Chronicles |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" (0.90 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Will O'Shaughnessy has left behind Ashley Springs, and his car dealership, and moved his family to a dairy farm in the hills of southwestern Wisconsin. Now, as the Great Depression gives way to World War II, his daughters are growing up. Neighbors are driving gasoline tractors, but he's still plowing with horses and milking by hand. Will is living his dream. But challenges bear down. His wife, Mary, insists on taking in their wild teenage niece from Texas. Accidents, unreliable farmhands and weather take their toll. Bills are piling up. He's wrangling with other dairy farmers about forming a co-op. His troubled, maimed brother Jesse might be back. And did someone purposely set out to sicken his herd? Will is beginning to think that his grandfather was right, that he doesn't have what it takes to run a farm. |