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"This story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, Milt, Julia, their two little girls, and Milt's father, Konkie, share a life of cramped circumstances in a one-room dugout with never enough to eat. Yet buried in the drudgery of their everyday life are aspirations, failed dreams, and fleeting moments of hope. The land is their dream." "The Dunne family and the farmers around them fight desperately for the land they love, but the droughts of the thirties force them to abandon their fields.…
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Editions
3 editions- Audiobook · English · 2014Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664422919
- Paperback · English · 2006University of Oklahoma Press · 240 pages · 9780806137124
- Other · English · 2004University of Oklahoma Press · 222 pages · 9780806135793
FictionLabor campsDepressionsFarmersMigrant agricultural laborersRural familiesCalifornia, fictionOklahoma, fiction






