The folks / by Ruth Suckow ; drawings by Robert Ward Johnson ; foreword by Clarence A. Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suckow, Ruth, 1892-1960.

Series:

Bur oak book.

A Bur oak book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (742 p.)

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.

ISBN:

1-58729-233-5

OCLC:

44953907