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Author:

Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968, author.

Title:

The fields / Conrad Richter ; foreword by David McCullough.

Publisher:

Chicago Review Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

288 pages ; 20 cm.

Other Authors:

McCullough, David G., writer of foreword.

Notes:

"Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC"--Tltle page verso.

Contents:

Lawfully married -- First come -- The sawmill church -- The taxin' -- The face at the winder -- His own man -- The flesh pots of Egypt -- The improvement -- The dog day -- The sweat mill -- The laurel hut -- The fields -- The nettle patch -- Freely be his wife -- The reap hook -- The old Adam -- Red bird -- Cherry yoke -- Townsite.

Summary:

Continues the saga of Sayward Luckett Wheeler, who marries the educated New Englander, Portious, and bears him eight children. As pioneer, wife, and mother, she struggles to create a home in the wilderness for her family.

Series:

Awakening land trilogy ; 2

ISBN:

1613737424
9781613737422

OCLC:

(OCoLC)961415571

LCCN:

2018295200

Locations:

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KIPB845 -- Hospers Public Library (Hospers)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

S2PA501 -- Sully Community Library (Sully)