Man's Courage

[beautiful copy with no discernible wear, minor offsetting to endpapers; jacket a bit edgeworn here and there, small chip and surface-scrape damage at top of spine, a couple of short closed tears and associated horizontal crease at top of front panel, a bit of surface-scraping and one tiny tear at base of of spine, tiny puncture-tear at left edge of front panel]/ The author's second novel, about "a simple family in a small American city" (a thinly-disguised Utica, New York) coping with the Great Depression. The focus of the story is on a Polish immigrant, Adam Wolak, whose love of the soil "lured him to America, sustained him during the first years of labor, and now goads him to find some way out of the maze of city life and unemployment in which he seems eternally trapped." The author wrote one more novel, "The Straw Hat" (published in 1940), then settled into obscurity until "Man's Courage" was rediscovered and reprinted in 1988. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction."

Product Info

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Year: 1938

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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