The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - by Terry Ryan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This bestselling memoir starring a Midwestern wife and mother whose prize-winning poetry and prose kept her family afloat through the most difficult of times is now basis for a feature film from DreamWorks, starring Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson, scheduled for release in September.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio</i> 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. Evelyn'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 raising her six sons and four daughters. <br> Graced with a rare appreciation for life's inherent hilarity, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for fun and profit. The story of this irrepressible woman, whose clever entries are worthy of Erma Bombeck, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash, is told by her daughter Terry with an infectious joy that shows how a winning spirit will always triumph over poverty.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>The New Yorker</i> This plucky middle American chronicle, starring an unsinkable, relentlessly resourceful mother and her Madison Avenue-style magic, succeeds on many levels -- as a tale of family spirit triumphing over penury, as a history of mid-century American consumerism, and as a memoir about a woman who was both ahead of her time and unable to escape it.<br><br>Book of the Week <i>People</i> Nabs first prize in the memoir genre.<br><br>Judith Stone <i>O Magazine</i> A good-natured memoir as compelling as a commercial jingle.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Terry Ryan, </b> the sixth of Evelyn Ryan's ten children, was a consultant on the film adaptation of <i>The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio.</i> She lives in San Francisco, California
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