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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bur oak bookPublication details: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1992.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 727 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587292335
  • 9781587292330
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Folks.DDC classification:
  • 813/.52 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3537.U34 F6 1992eb
Online resources:
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
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.
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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

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.

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