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Life of Homer Crey and the farm to real estate debt
The narrative follows Homer Crey’s boyhood on a Missouri farm, his move to New York, and his early writing career. After family ties, travel, and a Paris sojourn, tragedy in Paris shapes his outlook. Back in New York, he is drawn into a mortgage trap, deciding to mortgage the little house despite risks, setting up a new chapter of striving and uncertainty.
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Ames Crey
Missouri
Homer
Creys
New York City
Culom Theodore Dreiser
Phebe
New York
Forest Hills
Long Island
Europe
Walter Lippmann
Paris
The
Riviera
Grand Hotel
Sainte Maxime
Water Tower
Mediterranean
Dale Carnegie
Evrone
Junior
Stanley Clements
Salty O'Rourke
N. Y
Eddie Cantor
Fred Martel
Fred
Eddie
Cornel Wilde
Wendy
Columbia
Humphrey Bogart
Warner Bros
Mrs. Carrolls