Fields: Second Book In Awakening Land Trilogy
by Conrad Richter
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Author: Conrad RichterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-05-01
ISBN: 0821409794
Number of pages: 169
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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Book Review: Historical fiction at its most authentic.
Summary: 5 Stars
Conrad Richter's "The Fields" is the middle book of his "Awakening Land" trilogy, and is no less powerful than the first, "The Trees," with its authentic use of pioneer speech and dialects, and its realistic depiction of the triumphs and tragedies of real Americans. Set in the original "West" of Ohio, "The Fields" continues the story of Sayward Luckett Wheeler as she and her growing family settle their land and deal with the everyday task of surviving. What was a handful of isolated trapper's cabins in the first book has now become a collection of settlements that is clearly on its way to becoming a bustling town. Sayward, as stoical as always, strongly confronts every realistic challenge and victory frontier life hands her. She's a refreshingly strong feminine character who is truly the reason why the West was settled. Her strength and determination holds her large family together as the frontier is pushed further westward. Mr. Richter was a truly gifted writer who manges to make the daily life of these long-dead heroes exciting and worthwhile.
Summary of Fields: Second Book In Awakening Land Trilogy
Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) trace the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The Fields continues the saga of the Luckett family that began in The Trees. In The Fields, the oldest daughter, Sayward, has begun the long process of carving a small farm out of the forest. She bears eight children and weathers numerous challenges in this novel, which gives an excellent sense of what pioneer life was really like. The trilogy earned Richter immediate acclaim as a historical novelist. The Town won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1951, and The Trees was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection after it was published. Richter also received the 1947 Ohioan Library Medal for the first two volumes of the trilogy.Historical Books
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