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| Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moody, Ralph, 1898-1982. Mary Emma & company. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1994] (OCoLC)624331914 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ralph Moody |
| ISBN: | 0803282117 9780803282117 |
| OCLC Number: | 29388205 |
| Notes: | "A Bison book." |
| Description: | 233 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Mary Emma and company. |
| Responsibility: | by Ralph Moody ; illustrated by Tran Mawicke. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family's run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. Mary Emma & Company continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The Home Ranch. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has The Fields of Home, in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.
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