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A Ruth Suckow Omnibus
Ruth Suckow
Contents: Ruth Suckow / by Clarence A. Andrews -- Susan and the doctor -- Home coming -- A part of the institution -- Visiting -- The crick -- What have I? -- A great Mollie -- Three, counting the cat -- Midwest primitive -- The little girl from town -- The man of the family
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The John Wood Case: A Novel
Ruth Suckow
The setting is the little town of Fairview, Iowa, in the early nineteen hundreds. The Wood family - father, invalid mother, and seventeen-year-old son - are popular, respected people, and Philip, the son, is the bright, handsome valedictorian-to-be of the graduating class. In fact, the trio is a kind of bulwark, an exemplar of goodness for the town. And when it is discovered that John Wood is not an honest man, that he has betrayed his employer's trust and acted the hypocrite in his church, the news throws Fairview into a welter of dismay, as if one of its foundations had crumbled. Nearly everyone in the community has a violent reaction to the news, and so the essential fabric of the story is the revelation of how the town and its people deal, as individuals and as a group, with a moral crisis. Giving reality to this dramatic purpose is the wealth of authentic detail about Fairview: the houses, the furniture, the food, the social doings, the books read aloud, the whole atmosphere of a little American place fifty years ago. The novel has the impact of simple and profound human drama, and a whole some and moving likability that is rare in modern fiction. -- Amazon.com
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New Hope
Ruth Suckow
Life in New Hope recaptures a feeling of youth that would seem overly idealistic if it were not for Suckow's unflinching realism. As seen through the eyes of its Edenic main characters - Clarence Miller, son of the town's banker and chief booster, and Delight Greenwood, daughter of the Congregational minister who serves New Hope during the two years of the novel - the town itself is the protagonist. Death, crime, and heartbreak intervene, but a sense of freedom and possibility, "where all were to share equally in the boundlessness of light and hope," always illuminates the town. -- Amazon.com
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Carry-Over
Ruth Suckow
Contents: Country people -- The Bonney family -- Eminence -- The big kids and the little kids -- The little girl from town -- The man of the family -- A start in life -- Renters -- Wanderers -- Experience -- Mrs. Kemper -- Good Pals -- A great mollie -- Spinster and cat -- A pilgrim and a stranger -- Golden wedding -- Just him and her -- The resurrection
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The Folks
Ruth Suckow
Here is an introspective, poignant portrait of an American family during a time of sweeping changes. 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 characters, Suckow focuses on personal differences within the family and each member's separate struggle to make sense of past and present, to confront a pervasive sense of loss as a way of life disappears. -- University of Iowa Press
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Children and Older People
Ruth Suckow
Contents: Eminence -- Susan and the doctor -- Good pals -- The big kids and the little kids -- The valentine box -- The little girl from town -- Experience -- Mrs. Kemper -- The man of the family -- Charlotte's marriage -- A great Mollie -- Sunset camp -- Midwestern primitive -- Spinster and cat
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Iowa Interiors
Ruth Suckow
Contents: A start in life.--At home-coming.--The daughter.--The top of the ladder.--Mame.--Uprooted.--Renters.--Retired.--A pilgrim and a stranger.--A rural community.--Just him and her.--The resurrection.--Wanderers.--An investment for the future.--Four generations.--Golden wedding.
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Country People
Ruth Suckow
The publication of Ruth Suckow's first novel is a real event. She is already well known to magazine readers, and her first novel had been long awaited with great and widespread eagerness. Country People will not disappoint her many admirers. -- from the dust jacket
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