A White Bird Flying

Released on 1988-01-01 by Bess Streeter Aldrich
A White Bird Flying

Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 0803259158

Category: Fiction

Page: 230

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Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes.

A White Bird Flying
Language: en
Pages: 230

A White Bird Flying

Authors: Bess Streeter Aldrich
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard
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Language: en
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Categories: Psychology
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Categories: Self-Help
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