| Home | Contact | Shopping Cart | Authors | Editors | Titles | Search |
 Born in Wayne County, Kentucky on July 7, 1908, Arnow lived on a farm near Ann Arbor, Michigan for most of her life. Arnow attended Berea College for two years (1926 - 1928) before completing he... Click here for more information.Frederic Svoboda is senior advisor to UM-Flint Chancellor Juan E. Mestas for the 2005-2006 academic year. A distinguished Hemingway scholar, Svoboda has been professor of English at UM-Flint since 1997.... Click here for more information. |
|
Between The Flowers Edited by Between the Flowers is Harriette Simpson Arnow's second novel.
Written in the late 1930s, but unpublished until 1997, this early
work shows the development of social and cultural themes that would
continue in Arnow's later work: the appeal of wandering and of modern
life, the countervailing desire to stay within a traditional
community, and the difficulties of communication between men and
women in such a community. Reviews "It's one of the oldest
stories there is - man and
land, how the one is pulled
by the other...Detailed and
crammed with local dialect,
Arnow's novels are
meditations on the idea of
regionalism...an intimate,
compassionate book, rich with
character...." - Praise for Between The Flowers This is the strongest contender that I have seen for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. In these pages Harriette Arnow has brought to life a people, a way of life, and a culture. — Victor Haas, Saturday ReviewThe publication of this newly discovered novel by Harriette Simpson Arnow is a literary event of grand magnitude. But better than that Between the Flowers is a wonderful read, an exciting book in any terms. What a treasure has been found for us! — Fred Chappell, author of Look Back All the Green Valley and Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You We feminists should have adopted Arnow's The Dollmaker a strong woman surviving hard circumstances, and it was up to Jane Fonda to rediscover that work in her powerful television drama. Now the previously unpublished Between the Flowers, Arnow's account of domestic strife on Kentucky farms, still speaks to contemporary readers with conflicts of their own, between home and a larger world, between duty and freedom. — Doris Betts, author of Souls Raised from the Dead Harriette Arnow's full and rich novel Between the Flowers is not only the story of the passion of the married lovers Delph and Marsh Gregory but also of how badly they fail each other. At the same time, it is a study of a society undermined and enriched by the American yearning to leave home, look for something better, and see what's on the other side of one more hill. — Meredith Sue Willis, author of In the Mountains of Americaand the Blair Morgan triology In Between the Flowers, Harriette Arnow takes us deep 'the country of marriage,' Wendell Berry's term for the psychological place where couples live on uneven ground. With her talent for creating unforgettable characters and a compelling story, Arnow explores what happens when a woman who longs for adventures far from her rural Kentucky home marries a roaming man who develops ties to the land. It's a powerful and heartbreaking novel. - Sandra L. Ballard, Carson-Newman College
|
 |
Home | Contact | Shopping Cart | Authors | Titles | Subjects | Search |