The Folks (Bur Oak Book)

Suckow, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0877453748 / ISBN 13: 9780877453741

Published by University Of Iowa Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Folks (Bur Oak Book)
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877453748
• ISBN 13: 9780877453741
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Here is an introspective, poignant portrait of an American family during a time of sweeping changes. Now nearly sixty years after it first appeared, Suckow's finest work still displays a thorough realism in its characters' actions and aspirations; the uneasy compromises they are forced to make still ring true.

Suckow's talent for retrospective analysis comes to life as she examines her own people—Iowans, descendants of early settlers—through the lives of the Ferguson family, living in the fictional small town of Belmond, Iowa. Using her gift of creating three-dimensional, living characters, Suckow focuses on personal differences within the family and each member's separate struggle to make sense of past and present, to confront a pervasive sense of loss as a way of life disappears.