Rw Holmen

Lost in the Land of Milk and Honey (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1891, Swedish immigrant Jonas Jönsson sails into the New York harbor with dreams of owning a farm with a red barn, sturdy horses, and a herd of spotted cattle, but the America that stirs his imagination fails to match the promise. The novel explores the paradox, or perhaps the dialectic, of America: alternating shades of noble ideals and ignoble intolerance--the idea of America contrasted with the reality.

With fits and starts, triumphs and tragedies, Jönsson's pursuit of his dreams becomes a complicated journey across the sweep of American history. Turn-of-the-century Minnesota provides the setting, actual events form the backdrop, and real persons weave in and out of Jönsson's fictional story.

North-country geography and history provide rich settings. Against the backdrop of a half century of American historylabor strife in lumber, mining, railroading and shipping; the Great War; the Red Scare; the Roaring Twenties; and the Great Depression--Jönsson stumbles along, pursuing his vision of the American dream. Conflict impedes his journey: class, ethnic, and religious bigotry; fearmongering and scapegoating; and labor violence.

The novel shares the critical high-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis with the Minnesota flavor of William Kent Krueger, and nods to the classics of Scandinavian immigrant literature by Ole Rolvaag and Vilhelm Moberg.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RW Holmen
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005765477
• Artikelnr.: 72345508

Autorenporträt

Former trial attorney. Frequent public speaker. Indie author. "A Wretched Man, a novel of Paul the apostle," "Gonna Stick My Sword in the Golden Sand: A Vietnam Soldier's Story," "Queer Clergy: A History of Gay and Lesbian Ministry in American Protestantism." Spirit of a Liberal blog.