| Leaving the Land Contributor(s): Unger, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 080329560X ISBN-13: 9780803295605 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: Leaving the Land is, sadly and disturbingly, about endings. It shows family farming giving way to corporate farming and agribusiness. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95010945 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 277 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - South Dakota |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award Winner, 1985 "This fine first novel courts comparison with Willa Cather's . . . O Pioneers! But there is a big difference, since O Pioneers! . . . is about beginnings, while Leaving the Land is, sadly and disturbingly, about endings. It shows family farming giving way to corporate farming and agribusiness. . . . Marge [Hogan] has character, which is probably not inheritable. It is a rare commodity in modern novels."-New York Times Book Review. The reputation of Leaving the Land has grown steadily since its first publication in 1984. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Award and was an ALA Notable book in 1984. Douglas Unger, a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is also the author of El Yanqui and The Turkey War, and, most recently, Voices from Silence: A Novel of Repression and Terror in Argentina. |