"The Original Little Joe: Adventures in Childhood Survival from the Days of Yesteryear"
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ISBN: 978-1-60264-192-1, softcover, $13.95; 978-1-60264-193-8, hardcover, $21.95, 264 pages "The Original Little Joe" is the heartfelt story of a young boy growing up during the latter part of the great depression and through World War II. However, it is not the typical story of the hard pressed, deprived and abused inner city street punk. Rather this boy was the youngest of eleven children in a poor struggling family living on a small piece of land in the rural Pacific Northwest. He watched and in time became a part of this family who attempted to scratch out a living, or at least supplement a nearly non-existent outside income with home grown row crops. He learned many things about life the hard way. Possibly the greatest of these was just surviving the ordeal of being the youngest and most vulnerable of nine straight boys. Experience how he survived under the heavy hand of a tyrannical father using the love of his overindulgent and pampering mother as weapon. This book covers the period from his birth (as recalled by family and friends) until the cataclysmic day of his fourteenth birthday when all things changed forever for him. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ron is a retired widower living in Southern Oregon who is concentrating on his writing. He is an on again off again student at a local college filling in some of the gaps in a liberal education that included many years in the school of hard knocks and street learning. Now in his seventies, he has finally finished a long awaited work on his early childhood, "The Original Little Joe," which is set in the time period prior to World War II. He is currently working on a fictional work of the three decades following that war. His writing revolves around family and friends, whether they are fictional or factual, and the everyday experiences that make up their lives and existence. His attempted goal is to be able to pass along those experiences to his readers in a voice and manner which will assimilate them into similar experiences encountered by the reader. He lost his voice to cancer surgery in the mid l980s and turned to writing as a medium of communication. This had led to the circumstances of his having to accomplish all his additional educational and writing pursuits in a most unconventional manner. Ron is one of only two living survivors of his generation of direct family, which started with his parents and eleven children. However, he now tests his writing on his children and grandchildren prior to release. Despite his age he anticipates many more pages of productive material to come from the keyboard, which has become his voice to the world. Login to review this product