Matriarch Abbie Deal dies at the beginning of this novel, leaving to granddaughter Laura her literary aspirations. Laura vows that nothing will deter her from a successful writing career, but the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes.
Miss Aldrich has recreated the spirit of the descendants of the early Scotch and German settlers of the great Nebraskan plains, the spirit of healthy morality and calm contentment that is characteristic of these people. - New York Times
Acclaimed for her 1928 novel 'A Lantern in Her Hand, ' Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published for masterpiece, 'Spring Came on Forever, ' a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head.
University of Nebraska Press
Pub Date: January 1, 1988
0.93" H x 8.0" L x 5.44" W
222 pages
paperback