Word: sicknun
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...inherit a farm about the time John Steinbeck's Joad family (The Grapes of Wrath) leaves for California. Rothermell's prose is less artificial than Steinbeck's, his Ozark dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help me Gawd!" Young Ned Fulton recounts the impact of drought on his father, his sisters, his starving neighbors in their little grey houses. Love interest...
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