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Rainwater / Sandra Brown.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 552
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Sandra, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boardinghouses--Fiction.
- Boardinghouses.
- Social conditions.
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
- City and town life.
- Texas.
- City and town life--Texas--Fiction.
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939--Fiction.
- Texas--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
- Summary:
- In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9781439172773
- 1439172773
- OCLC:
- 428643748
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