Word: dustbowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...china." Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck's dustbowl refugees in The Grapes of Wrath, but she has incurred no literary debt. Hers is a book of little form, but the substance is fresh, and all the accidents, coincidences and rashes of sentimentality are not allowed to get too far beyond life's normal quota...