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Original Title:	The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
ISBN:	0739416383 (ISBN13: 9780739416389)
Edition Language:	English

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

Terry Ryan

Hardcover | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 12637 Users | 2051 Reviews

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Title	:	The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
Author	:	Terry Ryan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	(first published April 1st 2001)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Biography Memoir

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Evelyn Ryan, wife of an alcoholic husband and mother of ten children, lived in a small town in a time and place when women did not seek jobs outside the home. When finances ran low, feeling desperate, she turned to her parish priest who suggested she "take in laundry." Ryan had to laugh at the advice because she could barely keep up with her own family's washing and ironing. A lesser woman might have succumbed to poverty, but she was determined to keep her family financially afloat and to teach her children that the life of the mind was important. In the early 1950s, Ryan started entering contests, composing her jingles, poems, and essays at the ironing board. She won household appliances, bikes, watches, clocks, and, occasionally, cash. She won a freezer, and several weeks later, she won a supermarket shopping-spree. When the family was faced with eviction, she received a $5000 first place check from the regional Western Auto Store. Ryan's unconventionality and sense of humor triumphed over poverty, and her persistence makes the reader cheer her on.

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i got this book for free, which is why i read it. plus, you know, i am from ohio, not too far from defiance, & i am always curious about how people scrimp & save to make ends meet. this book was kind of...eh. another one of those big font memoirs. i read it in like two hours. & it has been made into amovie, so most people know the plot already: ohio woman has ten children, enters many a contest & a sweepstakes to keep everyone in refirgerators & bicycles. all right then. i

This kind of story always makes me feel really feisty-- it's about the author's mother who overcame the disadvantages of an alcoholic husband and poverty to raise 10 children; and then I realize, I am not living in poverty, and my husband is about as far from abusive as you can get. So, I guess the real take-home message is not to let your disadvantages define you, and to be the sort of person who gets out and does something about their problems rather than sit by and whine about them. This

Audible. *On the heels of The Goldfinch, and all the dialogue that has surrounded that review, I am giving up -- yes, GIVING UP -- on this book. I am taking to heart the many (the hundreds) of people who said "if you don't like the book then stop reading it!" I never do that. For one, I'm too cheap. For another, I always assume I'll be missing some nugget of brilliance. But I am going to "just do it" and stop. This book is driving me mental. The very things that others love it for, I loathe it

Below I've included a touching anecdote on atonement. I find this book to be compelling because it gives a deeper look into the life of an intelligent, hardworking, midwestern mom with 10 kids, living a life of poverty in the middle of nowhere, with an alcoholic husband who consistently ferried away any savings. In this true story, "Mom" makes ends meet by winning contests where you mail in limericks, 25 words or less type poems, and the last line of whatever jingle the company has created. She

What a great story. The book is the true story of a mother of ten who helps support her family by entering contests. Whenever she heard of a company that was holding a contest to come up with a jingle for their product Evelyn would enter it. A lot of the products I haven't heard of, I was born a decade or two after these products were in their heyday. The majority of the contests paid between $1-$25 if they used your slogan. I did the math and a dollar then was equal to seven of today's dollars.

I LOVED this book! It read like good fiction & was totally engaging. As a mother myself, I really could relate to Evelyn's life & situation. I only had one tiny quibble. I didn't like how the author (Evelyn Ryan's daughter) kept going back to the fact that Evelyn left behind what could've been a promising career writing to raise her 10 kids. She made a couple comments about how she would've been a high level executive in an advertising company if she hadn't gotten pregnant out of wedlock

Made for an excellent book discussion with my senior book discussion group. A really powerful memoir that serves as a time capsule of growing up poor in a large family in small town Ohio.