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Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.

Language: English

Pages: 228

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Release: February 13, 2006

ISBN: 0806137754

ISBN 13: 9780806137759

Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.

Language: English

Pages: 228

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Release: February 13, 2006

ISBN: 0806137754

ISBN 13: 9780806137759

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