Mary Emma & Company

Moody, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0803282117 / ISBN 13: 9780803282117

Published by Bison Books (edition Reprint), 1994

About this Item

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 0803282117-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mary Emma & Company
• Publisher: Bison Books (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803282117
• ISBN 13: 9780803282117
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes into his own. The family’s run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life.

Mary Emma & Company continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The Home Ranch. All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has The Fields of Home, in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.

About the Author

Ralph Moody (1898–1982) is the author of Come on Seabicuit! as well as the Little Britches series about a boy's life on a Colorado ranch, all available in Bison Books editions.