The Build-up : Volume 3, Stecher Trilogy

William Carlos Williams

ISBN 10: 0811202275 / ISBN 13: 9780811202275

Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation Mär 1970, 1970

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Neuware - The Build-Up, Volume 3 of the Stecher Trilogy, picks up the thread of White Mule and In the Money. Although all of the novels deal with the triumphant rise of an immigrant family in the early 1900s, the Build-up is more concerned with the overwhelming drive and ambition of Joe Stecher's wife, Gurlie.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Build-up : Volume 3, Stecher Trilogy
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Mär 1970
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811202275
• ISBN 13: 9780811202275
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 203W x 132H x 19D millimeters 203 millimeters width by 132 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 277 grams

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Synopsis

The Build-up, Volume 3 of the Stecher Trilogy, picks up the thread of White Mule and In the Money. Although all of the novels deal with the triumphant rise of an immigrant family in the early 1900s, The Build-up is more concerned with the overwhelming drive and ambition of Joe Stecher's wife, Gurlie. After years of hard work, careful planning (and his wife's badgering) Joe's printing business is providing his family with a comfortable income. As soon as her financial goal is realized, Gurlie focuses her attention on another area. Her phenomenal energy is soon earning her all unassailable position as a social leader in a small New Jersey suburb. Her achievement is not without its heartache, however. This story is told with all the gentle humor and exacting detail that mark Williams's prose works.

About the Author

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.