This 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner, probably out of print, is worth looking for. Susan, product of cultured East Coast America, marries a mining engineer and is taken to live in the Far West. Based on a true story (including original family letters) their lives are reconstructed by Susan's paralyzed grandson. Impossible to condense the richness of this narrative of conflicting cultures, hopes, disappointments, tragedies in the context of a society in the making. I found it exceptional.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 60 Spring 2011 ) |
