The Folks
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Description
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
Keywords
Iowa -- Fiction; Pastoral fiction; Iowa;
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1934
Publisher
Literary Guild
City
New York, NY
Object Description
727 p. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Suckow, Ruth, "The Folks" (1934). Books by Ruth Suckow. 8.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/suckow_book/8
