Fireweed / Mildred Walker ; introduction to the Bison Book edition by Annick Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Mildred, 1905-1998.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lumber trade--Michigan--Upper Peninsula--Fiction.

Lumber trade.

Michigan--Upper Peninsula.

Young women--Michigan--Upper Peninsula--Fiction.

Young women.

Marriage--Michigan--Upper Peninsula--Fiction.

Marriage.

Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Fiction.

Upper Peninsula (Mich.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Kladstrup, Regan (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 314 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1994]

Summary:

Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of Swedish, German, and Finnish lore. Young Celie and her husband, Joe Linsen, are the children of Scandinavian pioneers. Radios and flivvers have enlarged her world, and she longs to escape from an isolated place where wild violet fireweed grows to the edge of the woods.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Regan Kladstrup.

ISBN:

0803297580

OCLC:

29517906