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The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, this novel by Willa Cather follows the son of a successful farmer and a dearly religious mother who, despite his destiny to live a comfortable life, continues to ail under the pressure of his father's success. Claude Wheeler is living the typical college life at Temple College, a Christian university in the area. After failing to convince his parents to send him to a state school, Claude slowly begins to adjust...
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viii, 338 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
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420 pages ; 24 cm
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Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.
Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho -- heart of the potato-farming industry -- since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents,...
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