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»Eine wichtige Autorin und radikale Stilistin, die ich jetzt erst entdeckt habe.« Monika Rinck Marget und ihre ungleichen Schwestern Kerrin und Merle ziehen mit den Eltern auf eine verlassene Farm. Es ist die letzte Chance für die Familie, trotz Wirtschaftskrise ein Auskommen zu finden. Nach einer Zeit unerbittlich harter Arbeit bringt die Anstellung eines jungen Mannes das fragile Gleichgewicht ihres Daseins durcheinander. Und dann bleibt au...

A beautiful book...about nature the way Walden was a book about nature. It should be read by everyone who still retains the capacity to feel anything" (The New York Times). Stunningly written and fiercely observed, a new edition of a classic work of nature writing about a year on an Ohio farm, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Josephine Johnson.Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island is Josephine W. Johnson's startling and brilliant chr...

A lost gem of twentieth-century literature, Josephine Johnson's 1934 Pulitzer Prize-winning "exquisite…heartbreakingly real" (The New York Times Book Review) novel follows a year in the life of a family struggling to survive the Dust Bowl.Published when Josephine Johnson was only twenty-four years old, Now in November made Johnson the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. It is a beautifully told account of one farming family's c...

Wenn dein Herz in tausend Scherben liegt ...Josephine Valentine und Archer Reyes sind seit ihrer Kindheit unzertrennlich, obwohl sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten: Während Josephine als Tochter reicher Eltern mit Privilegien und Erwartungen aufwächst, muss Archer hart für seine Chancen und Erfolge kämpfen. Doch als aus Freundschaft Liebe wird, fürchten beide, nicht gut genug zu sein. Und dann ist da noch ein dunkler Schatten in Archers ...

Wenn dein Herz in tausend Scherben liegt ...Ein Jahr ist vergangen seit Josephine Valentine ihrem besten Freund Archer Reyes ihre wahren Gefühle offenbart hat.Ein Jahr seit sie ihm gesagt hat, dass sie ihn liebt und er ihr eiskalt das Herz gebrochen hat.Josephine konnte nicht ahnen, dass er sie so zerstören würde - oder dass Archer sie nur belügt, um sie zu retten. Selbst wenn er damit auch sein eigenes Herz in tausend Scherben zerschlägt ...Z...

Farr was closely related to Bernard Shaw and Yeats, and was a member of the occult Order of the Golden Dawn. To Shaw she was mistress and companion, while with Yeats it is thought that she had a spiritual relationship only. Farr achieved intellectual

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Paul è un ragazzo solitario che si muove silenzioso nel suo mondo: una casa inospitale, un padre aggressivo e anaffettivo, la madre amorevole ma debole e il costante paragone con il fratello, morto in guerra, orgoglio dei genitori ed esempio di tutto ciò che Paul non è ma dovrebbe essere. Scappa di casa, e si rifugia dallo zio Douglass, nel calore della sua famiglia. Spera di liberarsi della sua strana anomalia, che lo porta a provare emozioni...

Sono passati dieci anni da quando gli Haldmarne hanno lasciato i modesti agi della vita di città per tornare alla terra di famiglia. Kerrin, Merle e Marget sono diventate grandi in campagna, divise tra i doveri pesantissimi del lavoro quotidiano ("quella confusione che è la nostra vita e che ci impedisce di essere davvero vivi") e l'incanto dell'infanzia passata all'aria aperta, respirando paesaggi che mutano di ora in ora. Mentre per Marget e...

A lyrical portrait of the Depression and Dust Bowl years in America, first published in 1934, which won the Pulitzer Prize. With an introduction by Michael Schmidt.

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties.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 prai...

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Johnson has written a moving account of an historic vessel, an ancient village, and daunting tidal river through the voices of war-scarred characters, who echo the pull and tug of their native soil and the river Adur.