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portada the blue orchard (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Language
Inglés
Pages
393
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.1 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.34 kg.
ISBN
9781416592945
ISBN13
9781416592945

the blue orchard (in English)

Jackson Taylor (Author) · Touchstone Books · Paperback

the blue orchard (in English) - Taylor, Jackson

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Synopsis "the blue orchard (in English)"

On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help support her family. Her employer takes inappropriate liberties, and as Verna matures, it seems as if each man she meets is worse than the last. Through sheer force of will and a few chance encounters, she manages to teach herself to read and becomes a nurse. But Verna's new life falls to pieces when she is arrested for assisting a black doctor with "illegal surgeries." As the media firestorm rages, Verna reflects on her life while awaiting trial. Based on the life of the author's own grandmother and written after almost three hundred interviews with those involved in the real-life scandal, The Blue Orchard is as elegant and moving as it is exact and convincing. It is a dazzling portrayal of the changes America underwent in the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Readers will be swept into a time period that in many ways mirrors our own. Verna Krone's story is ultimately a story of the indomitable nature of the human spirit--and a reminder that determination and self-education can defy the deforming pressures that keep women and other disenfranchised groups down.

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