Black Tuesday's Child

Born on the first day of the Great Depression, Randy Davies absorbs the values of small-town Texas life in a time and place when the willingness to do hard and unpleasant work is a measure of a man's worth. Later, those values fight for dominance when he is tempted to pursue a chancy life as an opera and concert singer and to marry a delightful but childlike girl whom he meets while studying voice in Bavaria.