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Joe Bennett, Dixie Mae Crandall, Hattie Cooper, and Clarence Cobb are hardly exemplary citizens, but they color the pages of this book with recognizable humanity. Thornburg, Indiana, is the kind of town in which such characters are not only tolerated but accepted as part of the scenery. Their lives intertwine, sometimes in spite of their intentions. Often against the odds they support and help one another to greater hope and a better life. Too involved with each other's business to be objective, they nevertheless regard one another with tolerance or, at their best, with love and admira-tion. With no two people alike, they form a mosaic of American life on a small scale, a kind of confusion which, as E.B White has noted, "makes a democracy so lovable and so frightening." You will likely find people you have known--or perhaps yourself--in these stories.
Howard and Raymond Armstrong grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, during the 1940s. Only seventeen months apart in age, they experienced together the conflicts and joys of boyhood in wartime, rationing, and survival. Raymond Armstrong tells his story with a strict adherence to the facts as he and his brother remember them. Filtered through longing for people and places that no longer exist, they nevertheless reflect values that must not be allowed to pass from American life.
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