On the Home Front

Mary Jo Clark books, #1

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Relationships, Love/Romance, Biography & Memoir, Historical
Cover of the book On the Home Front by Mary Jo Clark, Jack Clark Ink
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Author: Mary Jo Clark ISBN: 9781524248000
Publisher: Jack Clark Ink Publication: September 17, 2002
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Mary Jo Clark
ISBN: 9781524248000
Publisher: Jack Clark Ink
Publication: September 17, 2002
Imprint:
Language: English

"Jack Clark's wondrous celebration of his working-class mother and her natural gifts as a storyteller has touched me deeply.

            "Hooray for Mary Jo Ryan Clark and her boy Jack." --Studs Terkel

"The book itself is a marvel of writerly restraint... Some are private moments--being 4 years old, getting shiny new shoes and remembering looking down at them as she toed circles in the sawdust on a butcher shop floor.

            "Other brush against history--news of Pearl Harbor, or the Dorchester, a World War II troop ship sunk off the coast of Greenland. It was famous for the four chaplains who gave up their life vests to other sailors, but Bill, who was dating Mary Jo's younger sister, wasn't one of the lucky survivors...

            "The books strength is that it doesn't stoop to Greatest Generation mythologizing. The Clarks are real people, and Mary Jo doesn't try to make them heroes."

--Chicago Sun-Times

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"Jack Clark's wondrous celebration of his working-class mother and her natural gifts as a storyteller has touched me deeply.

            "Hooray for Mary Jo Ryan Clark and her boy Jack." --Studs Terkel

"The book itself is a marvel of writerly restraint... Some are private moments--being 4 years old, getting shiny new shoes and remembering looking down at them as she toed circles in the sawdust on a butcher shop floor.

            "Other brush against history--news of Pearl Harbor, or the Dorchester, a World War II troop ship sunk off the coast of Greenland. It was famous for the four chaplains who gave up their life vests to other sailors, but Bill, who was dating Mary Jo's younger sister, wasn't one of the lucky survivors...

            "The books strength is that it doesn't stoop to Greatest Generation mythologizing. The Clarks are real people, and Mary Jo doesn't try to make them heroes."

--Chicago Sun-Times

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