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This book. This book.
It is very rare for a book to make me laugh, cry, root for the downtrodden, shake my head at the noble, and think about the general scope and sequence of life.
To me, The Town departs rather drastically from the voice presented in The Trees and The Fields but in a way that fits the story perfectly. Conrad Richter has [had?] an amazing way of truly putting you in the setting of his books. The Trees were oppressive and dark, The Fields were bright but toilsome, while The Town ...more
It is very rare for a book to make me laugh, cry, root for the downtrodden, shake my head at the noble, and think about the general scope and sequence of life.
To me, The Town departs rather drastically from the voice presented in The Trees and The Fields but in a way that fits the story perfectly. Conrad Richter has [had?] an amazing way of truly putting you in the setting of his books. The Trees were oppressive and dark, The Fields were bright but toilsome, while The Town ...more
This book is Conrad Richter's third book in the "Awakening Land Trilogy". It is also the book that provided his recognition with a "Pulitzer Prize". Although it is a fascinating book continuing the life of it's strong lead female characther Sayward, I thought that the first two books, particularly the first, "The Trees" were superior endeavors. I would suspect the the "Pulitzer" award came as the result of the collective effort. In any case three great books, well researched, and well told in th
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Well told story that had such interesting characters and narrative. The last part of a trilogy. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. Great story. Now I want to go back and read the first two parts of this trilogy.
Read my full review here: http://thepulitzerblog.wordpress.com/...
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This culmination of an early settler/pioneer story was ok. The writing wasn’t great, but it also wasn’t bad. This third book of an epic trilogy charting the life of a woman born in the late 1700s and living in the backwoods of Ohio throughout the early 19th Century captures something of a unique “American” story. I found it often to be incomplete and choppy, and some of the subplots to be stilted. The latter half of the book got more didactic and philosophical, and less descriptive. But it was e
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Tammy Marshall
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Kathy
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Kurt Z
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May 02, 2018
Debbie
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Elizabeth
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Nicole Lovell
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