With a Hammer for My Heart
George Ella Lyon
The University Press of Kentucky 
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda's friendship with an alcoholic World War II veteran named Garland is misinterpreted by their fellow townspeople, a tragedy calls her future into question.
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