The folks [[electronic resource] /] / by Ruth Suckow ; drawings by Robert Ward Johnson ; foreword by Clarence A. Andrews
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| Autore: |
Suckow Ruth <1892-1960.>
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| Titolo: |
The folks [[electronic resource] /] / by Ruth Suckow ; drawings by Robert Ward Johnson ; foreword by Clarence A. Andrews
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1992 |
| Edizione: | 1st pbk. ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (742 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.52 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction |
| American literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Iowa Fiction |
| Note generali: | Originally published: New York : Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword; 1. The Old Folks; 2.The Good Son; I. The Young People; II. Commencement; III. Homecoming; 3. The Loveliest Time of the Year; 4. The Other Girl; I. The Hidden Time; II. Basement Apartment; III. And It Had a Green Door; IV. After the End of the Story; 5. The Youngest; 6. The Folks |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Here is an introspective, poignant portrait of an American family during a time of sweeping changes. Now nearly sixty years after it first appeared, Suckow's finest work still displays a thorough realism in its characters' actions and aspirations; the uneasy compromises they are forced to make still ring true.Suckow's talent for retrospective analysis comes to life as she examines her own people-Iowans, descendants of early settlers-through the lives of the Ferguson family, living in the fictional small town of Belmond, Iowa. Using her gift of creating three-dimensional, living |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The folks |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-233-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778727103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Bur oak book.