Lois Phillips Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great Depression. Reapers of the Dust, now reprinted for a new generation of readers, vividly evokes that difficult time. From Hudson's childhood in North Dakota spring these unusual, moving stories of simple, joyful days, of continuing battles with hostile elements, and of a family's new life as migrant workers on the West Coast. While drawn from her own experiences growing up in North Dakota and ...
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Lois Phillips Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great Depression. Reapers of the Dust, now reprinted for a new generation of readers, vividly evokes that difficult time. From Hudson's childhood in North Dakota spring these unusual, moving stories of simple, joyful days, of continuing battles with hostile elements, and of a family's new life as migrant workers on the West Coast. While drawn from her own experiences growing up in North Dakota and migrating west during the Dust Bowl Diaspora, these stories are beautifully imagined and exquisitely rendered. Hudson was well ahead of her time in the ways in which she blends reality and imagination and in so doing blurs the boundaries of each in ways that would become common practice among writers in the generations following her. Her characters seem so real precisely because they are so perfectly crafted. Hudson's experience certainly colors their world and shapes their character but they come fully and vividly alive only through the power of her art.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. tear in front of jacket, wear at corners, spine faded, tear at upper left corner of front of jacket; pages faded. 173 p. 21 cm. "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. U2-DJ has wrinkling on the spine edges and corners, moderate discoloration and normal shelf wear otherwise very good. Book is slightly cocked, wrinkling on the spine edges, previous owner's info written on the top of the front loose endpaper, discoloration and normal shelf wear otherwise very good. This is the story of grass roots America, people living thirty thirty years ago in the upper midlands of America, a people and a time you will never forget, for this novel is the fabric of strong characterization, authentic background and setting as well as outstanding literary merit.
