The Growing Seasons (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Hynes
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1924-1944
- Setting: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Principal Characters: Samuel Hynes, Dad, Nellie, Chuck, Bill, Rose-Marie, Eileen
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, United States or Americans, Adolescence, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Depression, economic, 1920’s, 1930’s, Money, Loneliness, Boys, Minnesota
- Locales: Minneapolis, MN
The Growing Seasons, Samuel Hynes’s memoir of his formative years during the Great Depression, is an unsentimental yet moving reminiscence of a boy’s life and of an era in American history. The memoir highlights both the commonality of human experience as well as the profound changes that have occurred in American culture since the pre-World War II years. In the preface to the book, Hynes states that “When men and women of my generation speak of ‘before the war,’ they aren’t simply talking about a date in the past; they’re looking back across the great chasm of the...
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