The Worst Hard Time
The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
$42.16
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2006
Summary
This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage and narrative nonfiction, rescues an iconic chapter of American history–the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression–from the shadows.
Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780618773473 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0618773479 |
| Author: | Timothy Egan |
| Publisher: | Mariner Books Classics |
| Imprint: | Mariner Books Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 137mm x 208mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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Critics Review
[A] fierce, humane account of the dreams and extremes that crashed head on during the nearly decade-long calamity of the Dust Bowl. The New York Times
[A] vivid and gritty piece of forgotten history.
USA Today
“The Worst Hard Time” provides a sobering, gripping account of a disaster whose wounds are still not fully healed today.
Boston Globe
The Worst Hard Time is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction.
The Baltimore Sun
Egan has admirably captured a part of our American experience that should not be forgotten.
The San Francisco Chronicle
Egan is a passionate and accomplished writer…Read this for history, not inspiration or entertainment.
The Denver Post
Egan’s account of the Dust Bowl era is a final, terrible rebuke to the policies of America’s dying days of frontier expansion.
The Seattle Times
THE WORST HARD TIME is a flat-out masterpiece of historical reportage.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Timothy Egan
TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of eight other books, most recently The Immortal Irishman, a New York Times bestseller. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for nonfiction. His account of photographer Edward Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, won the Carnegie Medal for nonfiction. He writes a biweekly opinion column for the New York Times.
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