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(More customer reviews)This book starts strong and gets better and better. It is a classic tale of a midwestern boyhood. Think of Twain and Hamlin Garland. It is artfully written; time and place are wonderfully evoked, and characters come to life immediately, but page by page it has a wonderfully breezy and unlabored quality that stands in such exhilarating contrast in to the heavy-handed self-pity and sense of victimhood and infects so many memoirs in this post-Salinger age. To be sure, there is real anguish and conflict in young Bob's life, especially in his relationship with his sometimes explosive father, but the author is too humane and too wise to play the embittered son. As he makes clear, both father and son rise above their disappointments, and it is that slowly unfolding development that gives the book such depth. Though readers may have grown up under different circumstances and in different times, many will recognize themselves and their own stumbling toward maturity in the story that Robert Twedt relates in this moving and very entertaing book.
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This memoir is the story of growing-up in a Norwegian-American family in the hard times that followed the great depression of 1929. It is much more than that, however, for it describes the many, often bewildering, changes in the relationship of a boy with his father.Alternating between the ecstatic heights of hero-worship and the heart-breaking disappointment that each disclosure of his father's very human faults brings about, the boy finds solace in books, fantasy, and trains. As he grows into adulthood, he learns to appreciate the difficult circumstances that constrict his parents' lives and their ways of surmounting them.In scenes both vigorous and tender, he experiences his father's willingness to sacrifice, materially as well as emotionally, in order to further his son's chances in life.
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