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Capital City

Capital City

Svoboda, Terese
Sandoz, Mari

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Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0803260318
ISBN13: 9780803260313
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.34 Depth: 7.94
Language: English

First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel.

Like many important American novels of the 1930s--John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Jack Conroy's The Disinherited, Robert Cantwell's Land ofPlenty--Capital City depicts the troubles of working people trapped in the Great Depression. A unique portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains, it examines the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power. Sandoz researched the daily life and behind-the-scenes operations of several state capitals in the thirties before synthesizing them in this novel, which is part allegory, part indictment, part warning.

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