Half Portions
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Half Portions is a book by Edna Ferber. The contents list names, among others, The Maternal Feminine, April 25th, As Usual and Old Lady Mandle. A passage says that to the world Sophy Decker was unmarried, certainly, and most certainly no longer young. Adele, at ten, asks her mother why she always says Poor Sophy, and the reply is that Aunt Sophy has had so little in life.
A passage describes Tessie's mother as a spare, caustic, wiry little woman. The text says that Chug, in the winter, often went up to Woodman's Hall, where the dances were of the kind advertised at fifty cents a couple.
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- Author
- Edna Ferber
- Pages
- 146
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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