Seven houses : a memoir of time and places

Johnson, Josephine Winslow

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Now in November

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties. The novel moves through a single year and, at the same time, a decade of years, from the spring arrival of the family at their mortgaged farm to the winter 10 years later, when the ravages of drought, fire, and personal anguish have led to the deaths of two of the five. Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible among people isolated and driven by strong feelings of love and hate that, unexpressed, lead inevitably to doom. Reviewers in the thirties praised the novel, calling its prose "profoundly moving music," expressing incredulity "that this mature style and this mature point of view are those of a young women in her twenties," comparing the book to "the luminous work of Willa Cather," and, with prescience, suggesting that it "has that rare quality of timelessness which is the mark of first-rate fiction."

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Carroll & Graf Pub.

<p>Told in the twelve months of the year, The Inland Island is a lyrical celebration of the ever-changing life of the land ... a spiritual reminder that nature should be preserved.<br>Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island remains a powerful and relevant story about a woman, the farm she loves, and the gradual invasion of an increasingly mechanized society. This encore edition includes illustrations by the author's daughter. A portion of its proceeds will be donated to organizations that conserve nature.</p>

The Inland Island

Story Pr

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