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Now In November

by Josephine Winslow Johnson
Now In November - Thryft
Now In November - Thryft

End and beginning of life in autumn.

This book provides a powerful description of a family's struggle to survive during the Depression era, while grappling with the challenges of rural life. The book reveals a moving account of the tensions that arise between family members as they struggle to make ends meet, and the arrival of a new farmhand brings even more tension. The book's most unique feature is the author's evocative use of language, which gives readers a vivid sense of the beauty and harshness of life on the land.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1935)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Now In November

by Josephine Winslow Johnson
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ISBN: 9781784970758
Authors: Josephine Winslow Johnson
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Date of Publication: 2016-04-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.71
(rated by 1843 readers)

Description

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934), written when Josephine Winslow Johnson was only 24, 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."
 

End and beginning of life in autumn.

This book provides a powerful description of a family's struggle to survive during the Depression era, while grappling with the challenges of rural life. The book reveals a moving account of the tensions that arise between family members as they struggle to make ends meet, and the arrival of a new farmhand brings even more tension. The book's most unique feature is the author's evocative use of language, which gives readers a vivid sense of the beauty and harshness of life on the land.

  • Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1935)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.