His Family - Softcover

Poole, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1978301758 ISBN 13: 9781978301757

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

His Family tells the story of a middle-class family in New York City in the 1910s. The family's patriarch, widower Roger Gale, struggles to deal with the way his daughters and grandchildren respond to the changing society. “His Family” was praised by many critics at the time of its publication. The Oakland Tribune, in its review on May 27, 1917, said "in this story of Roger Gale's family, Ernest Poole has pictured remarkably well present-day Americans. It is significant, intellectual and stimulating--a story of today." The New York Times profiled the book in its review of "notable fiction" for 1917, calling it "a fine successor to “The Harbor” (Poole's first novel)."

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About the Author

Ernest Cook Poole (January 23, 1880 – January 10, 1950) was an American novelist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois he graduated from Princeton University during 1902. Working as a journalist he was active in promoting social reforms including the ending of child labor. He was a correspondent for the American magazine The Saturday Evening Post in Europe before and during World War I. His novel The Harbor (1915) is the work for which he is known best. It is set largely among the proletariat of the industrial Brooklyn waterfront, and is sympathetic with socialism. It is considered one of the first American fictional works to present a positive opinion of trade unions. During 1917, for the magazine The New Republic he went to Russia to report on the Russian Revolution. The novel His Family, concerning a New York family, made him the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1918). According to one commentator: “The consensus is that it’s the lesser of the two works, that the Pulitzer committee was really honoring Poole for The Harbor”.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978301758
• ISBN 13: 9781978301757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240