The Genteel Poor

by William Karl Thomas

Book Overview

The fourteen year old girl who appears on the cover of this book was Katherine, the person around whom all the other characters in this book revolve. Born at the turn of the 20th century, she faced the transition of being the daughter of a wealthy News Orleans doctor to being the single mother of three children at the height of the Great Depression. This memoir is told by the youngest child. Raised in a cultured environment, but driven by hunger to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1627680004
• ISBN13: 9781627680004
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Media Maestro Book Division
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"