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- Paperback Edition
- ISBN: 978-1-55861-035-4
- Publication Date: 08-01-1991
- Page Count: 288
- Categories: Fiction
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JOSEPHINE W. JOHNSON, (1910 - 1990), was the author of eleven books of fiction, poetry, and essays. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel, Now in November.
Now in November
Afterword by Nancy Hoffman
Poetic, evocative, and savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (1934) depicts a family of middle-class urbanites that become dirt-poor farmers as a result of the Depression. Like Ethan Frome, the story evokes the torment possible among people isolated and driven by powerful—but unexpressed—feelings of love and hate.
"Now in November is a memorable and unusual novel: it has a complex and subtle psychological sensitivity; a unique lyric voice; a rootedness in the powerful, enduring natural world; and, simultaneously, a grasp of a particular historical and political moment."
"Firmly wrought, poetic in the best sense, the product of a highly individual mind, [Now in November] is complete and self-sustaining . . . and so distinctive that one could mistake no single paragraph for the work of any other writer."
