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During the Great Depression, the Jensens, a Mormon family, move to Nevada in order to find work on the Hoover Dam project
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It is the early 1930s, and the promise of steady employment impels Alf and Esther Jensen to travel with their growing family from Brigham City, Utah to the ramshackle company town on the Colorado River that houses the laborers hired to construct the Boulder Dam. Guided by her Mormon faith but afflicted with a fragile emotional nature, Esther battles for family stability with Alf, who is driven by wanderlust and his disastrous get-rich-quick schemes. This story of family tension and growth is set amid the political intrigue, engineering challenges, and labor strikes that attended the building of the dam. Appealing as both a literary and historical narrative of the American Southwest, this novel is highly recommended.
- Sheila Riley, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Sheila Riley, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherUniv of Utah Pr
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0874803632
- ISBN 13 9780874803631
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages281
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AND THE DESERT SHALL BLOSSOM
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Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
(1991)
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ISBN 13: 9780874803631
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Linen boards w/gilt spine letter/Fine. DJ/VG w/ closed tears to upper spine edge. 1988 First Prize winner of the Utah Arts Council Literary Competition. Historical novel set in the early 1930s of the Great Depression, of the personal struggles of a young Mormon family and the building of the Hoover Dam. Story of how Esther and Alfred Jensen, with their growing young family, leave Brigham City, Utah for promise of steady employment for the ramshackle company town on the Colorado River housing dam construction laborers. A chronicle of dreams of an economically stressed family, discordant political intrigue, engineering challenges, and labor strikes. Seller Inventory # 012212
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