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The Town: Volume 31 Paperback - 2017

Name: The Town (Rediscovered Classics)
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Author: Richter, Conrad; McCullough, David
ISBN: 9781613737439

by Conrad Richter; Foreword by David McCullough

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From the publisher

The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned author Conrad Richter immense acclaim, ranking him with the greatest of American mid-century novelists. It includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) and follows the varied fortunes of Sayward Luckett and her family in southeastern Ohio.

The Town, the longest novel of the trilogy, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize and received excellent reviews across the country. It tells how Sayward completes her mission and lives to see the transition of her family and her friends, American pioneers, from the ways of wilderness to the ways of civilization. Here is the tumultuous story of how the Lucketts grow to face the turmoil of the first half of the 19th century. The Town is a much bigger book than either of its predecessors, and with them comprises a great American epic.

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Title The Town: Volume 31
Author Conrad Richter; Foreword by David McCullough
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Pages 448
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Chicago Review Press
Publication date 2017-11-01
ISBN 9781613737439 / 1613737432
Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
Dimensions 7.7 x 5.2 x 1 in (19.56 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
Category Fiction - Historical
Library of Congress subjects History, Historical fiction
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017276997
Dewey Decimal Code 813.52

About the author

Before becoming one of America's greatest novelists, Conrad Richter (1890-1968) worked driving a wagon over the mountains of Pennsylvania, in a machine shop, in a small-town bank, on a farm, in his own timber business, and reporting for newspapers, among other jobs. A dogged researcher, he wrote fifteen novels, most of them set on the American frontier, including The Light in the Forest and The Sea of Grass, as well as numerous short stories. His novels won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and many other accolades.

David McCullough is the author of The Wright Brothers, John Adams, 1776, and many other books of American history and biography.