Janet Lewis

Broschiertes Buch

Against a Darkening Sky

Beschreibung

Against a Darkening Sky was originally published in 1943. Set in a semirural community south of San Francisco, it is the story of an American mother of the mid-1930s and the sustaining influence she brings, through her own profound strength and faith, to the lives of her four growing children.

Autor

Janet Lewis was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. The New York Times has praised her novels as "some of the 20th century's most vividly imagined and finely wrought literature." Born and educated in Chicago, she lived in California for most of her adult life and taught at both Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Her works include The Wife of Martin Guerre (1941), The Trial of Sören Qvist (1947), The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron (1959), Good-Bye, Son and Other Stories (1946), and Poems Old and New (1982).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780804008662
• ISBN-10: 0804008663
• Artikelnr.: 48582055