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.
Publisher:Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1992.
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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
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