Mari Sandoz

Capital City

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First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s--John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Jack Conroy's The Disinherited, Robert Cantwell's Land ofPlenty--Capital City depicts the troubles of working people trapped in the Great Depression. A unique portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains, it examines the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power. Sandoz researched the daily life and behind-the-scenes operations of several state capitals in the thirties before synthesizing them in this nov… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Svoboda, Terese (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-8032-6031-3
EAN: 9780803260313
Produktnummer: 2929507
Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 343 S.
Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.9 cm 381 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 381

Über den Autor

Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) is one of Nebraska's foremost authors. She wrote twenty-three books about the High Plains region, including Crazy Horse, Cheyenne Autumn, and Old Jules, available in Bison Books editions. Terese Svoboda is the author of four novels, most recently Tin God (Nebraska 2006), and grew up on the edge of the Sandhills.