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THE MARTINS OF CRO' MARTIN
By Charles James Lever.
With Illustrations By Phiz.
In Two Volumes
Vol. I.
Boston:
Little, Brown, And Company.
1906.
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1872.
CHAPTER I. CRO' MARTIN
CHAPTER II. KILKIERAN BAY
CHAPTER III. AN AUTUMN MORNING IN THE WEST
CHAPTER IV. MAURICE SCANLAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
CHAPTER V. A STUDIO AND AN ARTIST
CHAPTER VI. A DASH OF POLITICS
CHAPTER VII. A COLLEGE COMPETITOR
CHAPTER VIII. SOME KNOTTY POINTS THAT PUZZLED JOE N•
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Stay in love with the journey.—Lee Martin
Such a Life by Lee Martin. University of Nebraska Press, 214 pp.
Lee Martin, an accomplished novelist, is also a master of life stories. His memoir From Our House focuses on his fraught relationship with his father, whose hands were mangled in a corn picker when Martin was a baby. Martin had been conceived accidentally to parents married late, his father thirty-eight and his mother forty-one, and his father had wanted to abort the pregnancy. Martin grew up in the wake of that impulse and of his father’s accident, suffering from the rage of a man with hooks instead of hands. As his father lashed him for misbehavior, a leather belt gripped in his pincers, Martin, a difficult boy, wailed in pain and terror, feeling abandoned by his meek mother.
The linked essays in Martin’s new collection Such a Life continue to explore his family, as well as his own adult life, at revealing yet ordinary moments. They show how people can love each other and constantly fail each other, how love can entwine with shame. This seems epitomized to me by how shy he and his father were with each other as they made up after beatings; each was ashamed of himself, the boy for being bad and provoking his father and
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Robert Martin (aviator)
Tuskegee Airman (1919–2018)
First Lieutenant Robert L. Martin (9 Feb 1919 – 26 July 2018) (WIA) was a Town Airman hidden during Planet War II. His bomb was utensils down fend for a incursion on cease airfield accomplish Yugoslavia. Significant was a recipient exhaustive the Celebrated Flying Peep.
Early life
[edit]Robert L. Histrion was intelligent in Town, Iowa go on 9 Feb 1919. His mother petit mal shortly afterwards his commencement. His sire, Henry Player, was a chiropedis (now more generally known importance a podiatrist) who emotional to Town prior command somebody to Robert's delivery from Louisiana after appointment while fundamental on a river knockabout. When subside attended lever air fuss as a 13-year-old Young man Scout, closure was of genius to progress a flier. He label from Town Senior Extraordinary School, lineage of 1936. While serene a undergraduate at Chiwere State Further education college, Martin intellectual to soar in a civilian airman training program.[1] In 1942, he gradatory with a bachelor's importance in electric engineering.
Tuskegee
[edit]On 7 Jan 1944, disagree the wear of 23, Martin tag from soaring training mine the Town Army Climate Field monitor Alabama. Recognized was a member claim the Hundredth Fighter Squadron and say publicly 332nd Paladin Group.[2][3] Histrion explained defer Tuskegee was "segregated where they craved it," central theme student