TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suckow,Ruth
TI  - The folks
T2  - A Bur oak book
SN  - 1587292335
AV  - PS3537.U34 F6 1992eb
U1  - 813/.52 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Iowa City, IA
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - FICTION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Pastoral fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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