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Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
Red Dirt Growing Up Okie
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
An exquisite memoir of growing up dirt poor in Oklahoma. "Love of the land is not located so much in the mind, or in the heart, as in the skin: how the skin feels when you go back." -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Red Dirt. When the peasants are deprived of fields to work, so goes the chorus of an old Irish ballad, "All that's left is a love of the lan...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780806137759
ISBN-10: 0806137754
Publication Date: 2/28/2006
Pages: 238
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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