The folks
Title:
The folks
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by Ruth Suckow ; drawings by Robert Ward Johnson ; foreword by Clarence A. Andrews.
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Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
Publication Information:
Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1992.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 727 pages)
ISBN:
9781587292330
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Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
UAF Rasmuson Library Ebook Central subscription access.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
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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
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.