The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less by Terry Ryan

The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids On 25 Words Or Less

Terry Ryan

367 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective medium-paced

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Standing up to the church, her alcoholic husband, and ant...

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