Prime Day

Como cliente Amazon Prime obtén 3 meses de Audible gratis

Diseño de la portada del título The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

How my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less

Muestra
Compra por 10,08 € y comienza la oferta Pagar 9,09 € con prueba
Oferta válida hasta el 12 de diciembre de 2025 a las 23:59 h.
Después de los 30 días, 9,99 €/mes. Cancela tu siguiente plan mensual cuando quieras.
Ahorra más del 90% en tus primeros 3 meses.
Escucha todo lo que quieras de entre miles de audiolibros, podcasts y Audible Originals incluidos.
Escucha cuando y donde quieras, incluso sin conexión.
Sin compromisos. Cancela mensualmente.
Disfruta de más de 90.000 títulos de forma ilimitada.
Escucha cuando y donde quieras, incluso sin conexión
Sin compromiso. Cancela tu siguiente plan mensual cuando quieras.

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

De: Terry Ryan
Narrado por: Terry Ryan
Compra por 10,08 € y comienza la oferta Pagar 9,09 € con prueba

Paga 0,99 € por los primeros 3 meses y 9,99 €/mes después. Posibilidad de cancelar cada mes. Oferta válida hasta el 12 de diciembre de 2025.

Después de los 30 días, 9,99 €/mes. Cancela cuando quieras.

Compra ahora por 12,99 €

Compra ahora por 12,99 €

3 meses por 0,99 €/mes Oferta válida hasta el 12 de diciembre de 2025. Paga 0,99 € por los primeros 3 meses y 9,99 €/mes después. Se aplican condiciones.Empieza a ahorrar

Acerca de este título

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the “contest era” of the 1950s and 1960s.

Stepping back into a time when fledgling advertising agencies were active partners with consumers, and everyday people saw possibility in every coupon, Terry Ryan tells how her mother kept the family afloat by writing jingles and contest entries. Mom’s winning ways defied the Church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. To her, flouting convention was a small price to pay when it came to securing a happy home for her six sons and four daughters. Evelyn, who would surely be a Madison Avenue executive if she were working today, composed her jingles not in the boardroom, but at the ironing board.

By entering contests wherever she found them—TV, radio, newspapers, direct-mail ads—Evelyn Ryan was able to win every appliance her family ever owned, not to mention cars, television sets, bicycles, watches, a jukebox, and even trips to New York, Dallas, and Switzerland. But it wasn’t just the winning that was miraculous; it was the timing. If a toaster died, one was sure to arrive in the mail from a forgotten contest. Days after the bank called in the second mortgage on the house, a call came from the Dr Pepper company: Evelyn was the grand-prize winner in its national contest—and had won enough to pay the bank.

Graced with a rare appreciation for life's inherent hilarity, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for fun and profit. From her frenetic supermarket shopping spree—worth $3,000 today—to her clever entries worthy of Erma Bombeck, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash, the story of this irrepressible woman whose talents reached far beyond her formidable verbal skills is told in The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio with an infectious joy that shows how a winning spirit will triumph over the poverty of circumstance.©2001 Terry Ryan, All Rights Reserved; (P)2001 Simon & Schuster Inc., All Rights Reserved; AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.
Arte y literatura Escritores Mujeres

Reseñas de la crítica

"Nabs first prize in the memoir genre"
-- People (Book of the Week)
No hay reseñas aún