The Town: Third Book In Awakening Land Trilogy - Softcover

Richter, Conrad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821409808 ISBN 13: 9780821409800

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1951 The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned Richter immediate acclaim as a historical novelist. It includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) and follows the Luckett family's migration from Pennsylvania to Southeastern Ohio. It starts when settler Sayward Luckett Wheeler becomes mother to her orphaned siblings on the frontier, and ends with the story of her youngest son Chancey, a journalist in the years before the Civil War. The Town won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize and received excellent reviews across the country.

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Review:

"I have to put in a plea to everyone not to consign Conrad Richter's books to the dustbin of history. His trilogy, the Awakening Land, which concludes with The Town (the 1951 Pulitzer winner), is a wonderful combination of history and folklore. The books tell the story of the Ohio frontier, a story I rather doubt most high school students now know, given that--to them--"the frontier" is the Wild West of the movies. When you read these dark and atmospheric novels about one woman's family (also the story of one place's history), you absorb the feeling of that early frontier life. I credit these novels with sparking a life-long interest in the Ohio frontier and the early Westward movement. They should live! (Thanks to Ohio University Press for keeping them in print.) " - Jean Ross, Potomac Community Library, Virginia, Shelf Awareness "Simple, unadorned, the prose flows fluidly and rhythmically, power emerging from its simplicity, striking you with the impact of a bullet... Strongly recommended." - Library Journal

Book Description:

A 'safari of the existential dread on which Australia is built', this is an alchemical debut novel like no other.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0821409808
• ISBN 13: 9780821409800
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 309