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The harsh life of a six year-old growing up in the early 1900’s is shown in this memoir . In the early years of the century, a young boy recalls his life as his family followed the rail line in hopes of finding fertile land. Percy Wollaston w ....

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... belongings and they traveled to the "land of promise." This memoir as said in the foreword, written by Jonathan Raban is "unforced, unsentimental, often dryly funny, it has the ring of experience itself insisting of making itself manifest in writing. It tells the story of what now must seem a tragic episode in American history, but it tells it with artful reticence, withholding the tragedy, yet letting it impinge, by suggestion, on the narrative." This quote is very true. The book was very straight forward. There was not much humor, but it sure made the reader feel the frustrating times of the early twentieth century. Percy Wollaston was ...