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Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie
Paperback
Series: Perennial Classics, Book 287
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780060931933
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Aug 4 1999
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.03
Height: 1.32 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.--The Nation
O. E. Rolvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains--a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America
Based in part on Ole Edvart R lvaag's own recollections as well of those of his wife's family who were immigrant homesteaders, Giants in the Earth is the riveting story of a Norwegian family forging a new life amid the harsh, desolate climate of the Dakota Territory. R lvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairie--blizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shock--as well as their simple joys, culminating in a magnificent epic that bridges Norwegian culture and the history of the American dream.
A moving narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism. . . . The background of the boundless Dakota prairie, with its mysterious distances and its capacity for evil, is painted with alternating beauty and grimness. --The Atlantic
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