"In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the…
"In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the…
-- -- A Gentleman in Moscow In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family …
"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the j…
A master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary…
"Willa Cather's My Antonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a c…
Celebrated by the New York Times Book Review for its "genuine grace and beauty," Terese Svoboda's work has been called "desperate, chilling, seductive" (Vogue) and "haunting and profound" (A.M. Homes), while Vanity Fair warned that it "detonates on contact." In Tin God, her writ…
Tin God takes us on a hilarious trip through the weird heart of the Midwest, a journey that passes across centuries and burrows into the unexplainable mysteries of what it means to be alive on this very strange planet.
"It is a curse in this family that the women bear only daughters, if anything at all." So begins this elegy of the women of the Nebraska plains. This is the story of the Atkins family, who settle, farm, and raise three generations from the early years of this century. In partic…
A soulful and rich portrait of a pioneer woman's simple yet heroic life. Antonia must adapt to a hard existence on the desolate prairies of the Midwest. Enduring childhood poverty, teenage seduction, and family tragedy, she eventually becomes a wife and mother on a Nebraska farm.
Antonia works as a servant for her neighbors after her father's death, elopes, and then returns to marry a Bohemian farmer.
