Now in November

W. Johnson Josephine

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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."

Informations

• Publié par: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Date de parution: 31 août 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781558617308
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 25 Mo

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NOW IN NOVEMBER

Josephine Johnson Afterword by Nancy Hoffman

Published in 1991 by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016

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Copyright © 1934, 1962 by Josephine Johnson Afterword copyright © 1991 by Nancy Hoffman

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No part of this book may be reproduced or used, stored in any information retrieval sys- tem or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York except in case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Josephine Winslow, 1910–1990 Now in November / by Josephine Winslow Johnson ; afterword by Nancy Hoffman  p. cm. Previously published: New York, Simon & Schuster, 1934. I. Title PS3519.02633N6 1991 813'.52—dc20 90-26975

eISBN 978-155861-730-8

his publication is made possible, in part, by public funds from tHe New York State Coun- cil on tHe Arts and tHe National Endowment for tHe Arts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.Cover Page

2.Title Page

3.Copyright page

4.Part One: Prelude and Spring

5.Chapter One

6.Chapter Two

7.Chapter Three

8.Chapter Four

9.Chapter Five

10.Chapter Six

11.Chapter Seven

12.Chapter Eight

13.Chapter Nine

14.Chapter Ten

15.Chapter Eleven

16.Chapter Twelve

17.Chapter Thirteen

18.Chapter Fourteen

19.Chapter Fifteen

20.Chapter Sixteen

21.Chapter Seventeen

22.Chapter Eighteen

23.Part Two: The Long Drouth

24.Chapter One

25.Chapter Two

26.Chapter Three

27.Chapter Four

28.Chapter Five

29.Chapter Six

30.Chapter Seven

31.Chapter Eight

32.Chapter Nine

33.Chapter Ten

34.Chapter Eleven

35.Chapter Twelve

36.Chapter Thirteen

37.Chapter Fourteen

38.Chapter Fifteen

39.Chapter Sixteen

40.Chapter Seventeen

41.Chapter Eighteen

42.Chapter Nineteen

43.Part Three: Year’s End

44.Chapter One

45.Chapter Two

46.Chapter Three

47.Chapter Four

48.Chapter Five

49.Chapter Six

50.Chapter Seven

51.Afterword

52.Notes

53.About the Author

54.About the Feminist Press

55.Also Available from the Feminist Press