Now in November

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Synopsis
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties.

The novel moves through a single year and, at the same time, a decade of years, from the spring arrival of the family at their mortgaged farm to the winter 10 years later, when the ravages of drought, fire, and personal anguish have led to the deaths of two of the five. Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible among people isolated and driven by strong feelings of love and hate that, unexpressed, lead inevitably to doom. Reviewers in the thirties praised the novel, calling its prose "profoundly moving music," expressing incredulity "that this mature style and this mature point of view are those of a young women in her twenties," comparing the book to "the luminous work of Willa Cather," and, with prescience, suggesting that it "has that rare quality of timelessness which is the mark of first-rate fiction."

Pulitzer Prize Winner

Copyright:
1962

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
292 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781558617308
Related ISBNs:
9781558610354
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Josephine W. Johnson, Nancy Hoffman
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Horror, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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