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Any given day

the life and times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux

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An edition of Any given day (1997)

Any given day

the life and times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux

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Her childhood was idyllic: fishing by moonlight, dressing her cats in doll clothes, stealing apples from the orchards planted on the Western frontier. Slim, lively Jessie Lee dreamed a little girl's dreams in an exquisitely remembered world of one-room schoolhouses, snowy Christmases, and a family that survived scarlet fever and floods with the power of love.

But for Jessie Lee, as for the nation, World War I put an end to those years of innocence. She lost her beloved fiance and mother in one year. She eventually married a man she didn't love and bore him eight children. Then, as her husband sank deeper and deeper into alcoholism, she carried the brunt of raising them on her own - selling products door-to-door with her youngest children by her side, and fighting debt and dishonor with hard work and the loving help of family and friends.

As time went on, and Jessie Lee broke with convention to find a job and get a divorce, she also found it in her heart to forgive the husband who had disappointed her, take responsibility for her own mistakes, and pass the insights of a long lifetime down to her children and grandchildren.

Her message is inspiring: that life is about meeting our challenges...and that extraordinary courage can be found inside ordinary lives, wisdom resides behind every elderly face, and everyday heroes and heroines stand beside us within our own American families.

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English
Pages
392

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Any given day: the life and times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux
1998, Thorndike Press, Thorndike Pr
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Any given day: the life and times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux
1997, Warner Books
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Edition Notes

"Thorndike large print Basic series"--T.p. verso.

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Thorndike, Me

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
977.8/04/092, B
Library of Congress
CT275.F6868 A3 1998

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Pagination
392 p. (large print) :
Number of pages
392

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL699484M
ISBN 10
0786213604
LCCN
97047256
Library Thing
808668
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
1729967

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