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Reading the 'Awakening Land' trilogy was a lesson in respect for me. When I began reading Richter's trilogy, I entered it with a level of skepticism. After all, the first installment was published eighty years ago; surely American literature has evolved to the point that a frontier novel from the forties and fifties would seem outmoded. But after reading the 'Awakening Land' trilogy, I realize that's like trying to argue that 'Moby Dick' is outdated simply because it is creeping up on 200 years
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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
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