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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9781558610330 ISBN: 1558610332 Label: The Feminist Press at CUNY Manufacturer: The Feminist Press at CUNY Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: January 01, 1993 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Studio: The Feminist Press at CUNY Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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." Average Rating:
 Rating: - "Don't they want a man to farm?"Tough times down on the farm. It's a Depression year and farmers are just barely scraping by, but this year troubles are compounded by a relentless drought. The Haldmarne family, ruled by a hard, somewhat tyranical father, try to survive, and barely do. Tragedy shows its face in the character of one of the three daughters, Kerrin, who is filled with anger and sets herself apart from her family; after a blowup with her father and the hired man Grant, she commits suicide. The mother dies ... Read More Rating:  - Nobly Poetic Novel Josephine Johnson won the Pulitzer Prize for 'Now In November' in 1935 at the age of 24. This was her first novel. It is a shortish work, running all of 231 pages, but what fills these pages is astonishing. Powerful and wise, wrenchingly real, 'Now In November' immerses the reader into a world harsh and unforgiving during a time of trial and drought, rendered through a poetic prose that cuts to the quick. The narrator is Marget, a quiet soul who sees all and feels deeply ... Read More Rating: - A Depresssion Era PortraitJosephine Johnson captures the spirit of life of so many dirt-poor farmers of the economic depression of the 1930's. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1935 was published at the very depth of this sad time. I was transported by the magic of her writing to the point I found it difficult to put the book aside until I had read it all. I recommend this book as reading for all who want to feel the anguish of the people living and struggling in this difficult era. This is not a light-hearted tale but ... Read More Rating: - Why isn't this work on an English Class reading list?One of the great experiences of my life was reading this book for the first time. It breaks my heart that English teachers are wasting time on second tier works, or repeating the same novels each year for decades, when there is a work of exquisite literary beauty full of strange and ambivalent revelations languishing and underappreciated. Please, if you are an English teacher, read it and recognize its perfection. Three sisters... a dirt farm... the depression... language that shimmers before your eyes ... Read More Rating:  - Short and sweetYet in a way, I don't think much more could have been said in Johnson's novel. The story of a period in the life of a family of farmers in the Depression era raises some interesting questions on life and the reasons for why things happen the way they do. Often lonely and sad in its tone, Johnson still tries to instill in her narrator a sense of not hope, but not despair either. It's an interesting work but not one of my favorites. 
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