The Time It Never Rained
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4.7 • 64 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
"The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance."—Elmer Kelton, Seven-time Spur Award-winning author
Rio Seco was too small to afford a professional manager for its one-room Chamber of Commerce.
And Rio Seco, meaning "dry river" in Spanish, symbolizes the biggest enemy of the ranchers and farmers in 1950s Texas, an enemy they can't control: drought. To cranky Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a battle that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable "assistance" of federal aid programs and their bureaucratic regulations, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again—if it ever rains again.
Charlie Flagg, among the strongest of Elmer Kelton's memorable creations, is no pasteboard hero. He is courageous and self-sufficient but as real as his harsh and unforgiving West Texas home country. His battle with an unfathomable foe is the stuff of epics and legends.
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Customer Reviews
The time it never rained
This story is authentic and helps us better understand the time before us. read it.
The time it never rained
The story is excellent.
The problem is with the e-version. I assume this book was somehow scanned from the original. Every page contains multiple errors. Words are run together without spacing and many, many words are incorrectly parsed; e.g. The word "the" appears as "die" over and over; the word "cattle" appears as "catde." The most annoying error, however, is the fact that one of the later chapters is out of sequence, giving away some of the story.
Hopefully, other books by this author were not produced with such an obvious disregard to proofreading.