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01824aam a2200289 i 4500 001 3A56A69451D011EDB119A86D23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221022010929 008 220713s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a bl2022022663 020 $a 1668004224 020 $a 9781668004227 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Johnson, Josephine W./ Klapholz, Mel (ILT)/ Dungy, Camille T. (INT), $e author. $t Now in November. 245 1 $a Now in November : $b a novel / $c Josephine W. Johnson ; introduction by Ash Davidson. 250 $a First Scribner trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2022. 300 $a xii, 289 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "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 challenges to scrape by and earn a living frommortgaged land over the course of a single year, narrated by one of three sisters-the introspective and thoughtful Margaret. As the household is ravaged by Depression-era hardship and the environmental blights of the Dust Bowl, the family's unique vulnerabilities are pushed to a breaking point. In a style typical of Johnson's body of work, Now in November is strikingly ahead of its time, grappling with questions of mental health, worker's rights, as well as gender, race, and class and is ready to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers:-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20220719. 650 1 $a Farm life $v Fiction. 650 $a Depressions $y 1929 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. 941 $a 1 952 $l YFPC572 $d 20221022013812.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3A56A69451D011EDB119A86D23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search