Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures
Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures is a collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. Anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio epidemic of 1952 provide a historic backdrop to the story of a wide-eyed boy exploring the limits of his universe. The adventures of a Twain-inspired raft trip down the South Platte and Sputnik-inspired homemade rockets mirror a society of seemingly settled lifestyles and frenzied technological advances. Family travels, holidays with Grandpa and Grandma, and marvelous creations like his sister's stories of Susabelle and the magic Band-Aids weave a sple…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8032-7592-8
- EAN: 9780803275928
- Produktnummer: 27559312
- Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.3 cm 263 g
- Abbildungen: Illus
- Gewicht: 263
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