Mothers to Men Zona Gale
Zona Gale
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Paula Benitez
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Description
"Daddy!"The dark was so thick with hurrying rain that the child's voice was drowned. So he splashed forward a few steps in the mud and puddles of the highway and plucked at the coat of the man tramping before. The man took a hand from a pocket and stooped somewhat to listen, still plodding ahead."Daddy! It's the hole near my biggest toe. My biggest toe went right through that hole an' it chokes my toe awful."The man suddenly squatted in the mud, presenting a broad, scarcely distinguishable back."Climb up," he commanded.The boy wavered. His body ached with weariness, his feet were sore and cold, something in his head was numb. But in a moment he ran on, two steps or three, past the man."Nope," he said, "I'm seeing if I could walk all the way. I could-yet. I just told you 'bout my toe, daddy, 'cause I had to talk about it."The man said nothing, but he rose and groped for the child's arm and got it about the armpit, and, now and then as they walked, he pulled the shoulder awkwardly upward, trying to help.After a time of silence the rain subsided a little, so that the child's voice was less like a drowned butterfly."Daddy," he said, "what's velvet?""I dunno, sonny. Some kind of black cloth, I guess. Why?""It came in my head," the child explained. "I was tryin' to think of nice things. Velvet sounds like a king's clothes-but it sounds like a coffin too. I didn't know if it's a nice thing."This, the man understood swiftly, was because her coffin had been black velvet-the coffin which he had had no money to buy for her, for his wife and the boy's mother, the coffin which had been bought with the poor fund of a church which he had never entered. "What other nice thing you been thinkin' of?" he asked abruptly."Circus. An' angels. An' ice-cream. An' a barrel o' marbles. An' bein' warm an' clean stockin's an' rocked....""My God!" said the man.The child looked up expectantly.
Product Details
Price
$17.25
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publish Date
December 05, 2016
Pages
202
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.43 inches | 0.61 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781540832269
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About the Author
Zona Gale (1874-1938) was an American writer. Born in Portage, Wisconsin, which she often used as a setting in her writing, she attended Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Later she entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which she received a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1895, and four years later a Master's degree. After graduation, Gale wrote for newspapers in Milwaukee and New York City. However, before long she gave up journalism to focus on fiction writing. She then published her first novel, Romance Island (1906), and began the very popular series of Friendship Village stories. In 1912, Gale moved back to Portage, which she would call home for the rest of her life, although alternating with trips to New York. In 1920, she published the novel Miss Lulu Bett, which depicts life in the Midwestern United States. She adapted it as a play, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. In the same year, Gale took an active role in the creation of the Wisconsin Equal Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination against women.