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Now in November by Josephine W. Johnson; afterword by Nancy Hoffman. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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{ May 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 288 pages Published 1934 Feminist Press at the City University of New York (1991) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1935) Afterword by Nancy Hoffman (1991) Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when Josephine Winslow Johnson was only 24, depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties. The novel moves through a single year and, at the same time, a decade of years, from the spring arrival of the family at their mortgaged farm to the winter 10 years later, when the ravages of drought, fire, and personal anguish have led to the deaths of two of the five. Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible among people isolated and driven by strong feelings of love and hate that, unexpressed, lead inevitably to doom. Reviewers in the thirties praised the novel, calling its prose "profoundly moving music," expressing incredulity "tha
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Josephine W. Johnson; afterword by Nancy Hoffman.
- Publisher
- Feminist Press at the City University of New York; Distributed by Talman Co.; The Feminist Press at CUNY; Feminist Press
- Published
- 1934
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781558610354
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Horror, Science
- Rating
- 3.66 / 5 (984 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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