The Folks

The Folks

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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

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