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02123aam a2200325 i 4500 001 B8D56968510511EDB4F1F7DB20ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221021010034 008 070831t20041939||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0806137126 020 $a 9780806137124 035 $a (OCoLC)166589047 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Babb, Sanora, $d 1907-2005, $e Author. 245 1 $a Whose Names are Unknown : $b A Novel / $c Sanora Babb. 264 1 $a Norman : $b University of Oklahoma Press, $c 2004. 300 $a 222 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a Originally written and slated for publication in 1939, this long-forgotten masterpiece was shelved by Random House when The Grapes of Wrath met with wide acclaim. In the belief that Steinbeck already adequately explored the subject matter, Babb's lyrical novel about a farm family's relentless struggle to survive in both Depression-era Oklahoma and in the California migrant labor camps gathered dust for decades. Rescued from obscurity by the University of Oklahoma Press, the members of the poor but proud Dunne family and their circle of equally determined friends provide another legitimate glimpse into life on the dust-plagued prairies of the Southwest and in the fertile, but bitterly disappointing, orchards and vineyards of the so-called promised land. Babb, a native of Oklahoma's arid panhandle and a volunteer with the Farm Security Administration in Depression-era California, brings an insider's knowledge and immediacy to this authentically compelling narrative. A slightly less political, more female-oriented, companion piece to The Grapes of Wrath. 541 $d 20221006. 650 $a Farmers $v Fiction. 650 4 $a Labor Camps $v Fiction. 650 $a Depressions $v Fiction. 650 14 $a Rural Families $x Fiction. 650 $a Migrant Agricultural Laborers $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Great Depression, 1929-1939 $v Fiction. 651 1 $a Oklahoma $x Fiction. 651 $a California $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310011916.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B8D56968510511EDB4F1F7DB20ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search