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First edition: [New York]: Little, Brown & Co., 1965.
Info autore
Lois Phillips Hudson (1927– 2010) was born in Jamestown, North Dakota on August 24, 1927 and migrated with her family to Washington State in 1935. She taught at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1992. A prolific writer, she is best remembered for her novel The Bones of Plenty, and the short story collection,
Reapers of the Dust: A Prairie Chronicle.
David Guterson is the author of the novels
East of the Mountains,
Our Lady of the Forest,
The Other,
Ed King, and
Snow Falling on Cedars, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award; a story collection,
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind; and
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. He lives on Bainbridge Island in Washington State.
Riassunto
Lois Phillips Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great Depression. Reapers of the Dust, now reprinted for a new generation of readers, vividly evokes that difficult time. From Hudson's childhood in North Dakota spring these unusual, moving stories of simple, joyful days, of continuing battles with hostile elements, and of a family's new life as migrant workers on the West Coast.
While drawn from her own experiences growing up in North Dakota and migrating west during the Dust Bowl Diaspora, these stories are beautifully imagined and exquisitely rendered. Hudson was well ahead of her time in the ways in which she blends reality and imagination and in so doing blurs the boundaries of each in ways that would become common practice among writers in the generations following her. Her characters seem so real precisely because they are so perfectly crafted. Hudson's experience certainly colors their world and shapes their character but they come fully and vividly alive only through the power of her art.
