A Search for America (New Canadian Library S.) - Softcover

Grove, Frederick Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771099576 ISBN 13: 9780771099571

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991

Synopsis

Frederick Philip Grove’s semi-autobiographical A Search for America follows young Phil Branden as he wanders from Montreal to the American Midwest in his quest for “the real America.” Born into a privileged European family whose fortunes have collapsed, Branden must remake himself in North America, shedding his Old World attitudes as he is absorbed into the immigrant underclass. In each of his new occupations – waiter, salesman, hobo, labourer – Branden encounters greed, cruelty, and deceit, yet he also glimpses the promise of a new social order struggling to be born.

First published in 1927, A Search for America is a novel of wonderful range and vision, a fascinating portrait of North American society in the early years of the twentieth century.

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About the Author

<b>Frederick Philip Grove</b> was born Felix Paul Grove at Radomno in West Prussia (now a part of Poland) in 1879. Raised in Hamburg and educated at the University of Bonn and later at the University of Munich, he began his career as a poet and translator into German of many English and French writers, including Balzac, Flaubert, Gide, Swift, and Wilde. His first novel, <i>Fanny Essler</i>, appeared in 1905; his second, <i>Maurermeister Ihle’s Haus</i> (Mastermason Ihle’s House), in the following year. He left Germany in 1909 for the United States. <br><br>In 1912, under the new name of Frederick Philip Grove, he began teaching school in Manitoba, and continued in that profession until 1924. <br><br>Grove’s first book in English, <i>Over Prairie Trails</i>, is a sequence of

Edition details

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771099576
• ISBN 13: 9780771099571
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 472