The Original Little Joe  (English, Hardcover, Hornby Ron)

"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.