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Signs and Wonders

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2007
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Bud and Scooter, two teenaged cousins, are making the trip of their young lives in the midst of the Great Depression. Their family friend in rural Florida, Jake Gilchrist, head of a poor family with three small children, has died while visiting his sick mother on Long Island. His wife cannot afford to have his body shipped back by train for burial, so Bud and Scooter volunteer for a goodwill mission and grand adventure: they take Bud's father's pickup truck, drive a thousand miles up US 1, pick up Jake's body, pack it in ice, and transport it back to Florida. Along the way they meet people (both common and extraordinary), they work out their differences (with words and with fists), they come face-to-face with beauty and goodness as well as with poverty and evil.. .and they get to see the Empire State Building.
Title: Signs and Wonders.
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Name(s): Bresciano, Cora
Bucak, Ayse Papatya, Thesis advisor
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Created: 2007
Date Issued: 2007
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 281 p.
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Bud and Scooter, two teenaged cousins, are making the trip of their young lives in the midst of the Great Depression. Their family friend in rural Florida, Jake Gilchrist, head of a poor family with three small children, has died while visiting his sick mother on Long Island. His wife cannot afford to have his body shipped back by train for burial, so Bud and Scooter volunteer for a goodwill mission and grand adventure: they take Bud's father's pickup truck, drive a thousand miles up US 1, pick up Jake's body, pack it in ice, and transport it back to Florida. Along the way they meet people (both common and extraordinary), they work out their differences (with words and with fists), they come face-to-face with beauty and goodness as well as with poverty and evil.. .and they get to see the Empire State Building.
Identifier: FA00000901 (IID)
Degree granted: Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2007.
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Symbolism in literature.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Literature and society--United States--20th century--Fiction
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Sublocation: Digital Library
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