Download or read book A Dollar the Hard Way written by Kestner Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace pens a series of stories about the life of a young man growing up and entering adulthood in Southern Illinois during the 1930s and 1940s. Each story evokes a time and place gone by, with vividly drawn characters described by a man who is clearly a character in his own right.