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Ernest Poole (1880–1950)

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Tekijän teokset

His Family (1917) 234 kappaletta
The Harbor (Penguin Classics) (1915) 58 kappaletta
The Avalanche (2013) 5 kappaletta
Nurses on horseback, (2017) 4 kappaletta
Blind: A Story Of These Times (2018) 4 kappaletta
Great winds 3 kappaletta
His Second Wife (1976) 3 kappaletta
Silent storms 3 kappaletta
The Bridge; My Own Story (1940) 3 kappaletta
Millions 3 kappaletta
Danger 2 kappaletta
The Hunter's Moon 2 kappaletta
'The dark people', (1919) 2 kappaletta
Beggars' gold 2 kappaletta
One of us 2 kappaletta
BRIDGE My Own Story (1940) 1 kappale
The Destroyer (1931) 1 kappale
Zijn gezin 1 kappale

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fairly quick read (short chapters are the best with a busy lifestyle!) of this, the very first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction! This is not a commonly found book, and i had to put forth effort to locate one. ( I am nearing a complete set of PP winners....)
So, this is the story of Roger and his 3 daughters, who are about as different from each other as possible, and how Roger struggles to adapt to the changing world, clinging to his traditional values, yet trying desperately to support and understand his girls. I had to keep reminding myself that this was written in 1917.....not a modern piece of fiction set in 1917, but written then. It had a remarkably easy feel and modern style to it, not to mention very strong forward thinking, several very strong women characters, and a probing look into the migrant tenement neighborhoods in NYC and their struggles before and during WWI. I for the most part enjoyed Roger's journey as he worked to support his family, but was slightly annoyed that he always seemed to need to have one of them to be upset with and disappointed in...and they all took their turns. A thoughtful look at what it means to be a family.… (lisätietoja)
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jeffome | 8 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Sep 23, 2022 |
For everyone who thinks that women had no choices in 1918, here is a novel that begs to differ. In fact, the choices Roger Gale’s three daughters make drive him quite crazy in this, the first ever Pulitzer Prize winner. He finds himself widowed and trying to understand and really get to know his three grown daughters. They are very different people, one a dedicated homemaker, one a passionate career woman/reformer, and the third a vacuous party girl who thinks more of money and position than anything else. During the course of the novel, he does forge an understanding of his family, and also a knowledge that their lives are their own and not his to manage anymore.

One of the major themes addressed is whether we live on after death in another realm, or whether our living on is something we do through our children and their children. To live on solely through our progeny is a bit of a depressing idea for me. In truth, our memory only survives, on average, two generations. There is not a single person on the face of this earth who ever knew my great-grandmother, and while she lives on in me genetically, I do not find that that is enough. And what of those who die young or have no children? In the end, I think Roger Gale discovers that it isn’t an either/or proposition, and I agree with that.

While this book is a bit dated, it does open a door into the attitudes and thoughts of the middle class of the early 1900s. I found myself confronting a few stereotypes and misconceptions I have had about how men might have viewed their daughters in this time period. In the upper class, they were still items to be traded to keep money concentrated; in the poorer classes, they were drudges perhaps, enslaved to trying to keep families fed and afloat, but I found Roger’s attitudes toward his daughters were very much in line with what someone of the 1950s middle class might have felt.

I felt there was a bit of unnecessary repetition toward the end and that the novel could, in fact, have been wound up sooner than it was. However, that did not detract appreciably from the experience of reading it and I exited with something significant gained from the read. In my quest to read all the Pulitzer prize winners, I have discovered that this first winner was far from the least worthy.
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mattorsara | 8 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 11, 2022 |
1916. Roger Gale runs a news clipping business. He has three grown daughters and his wife is dead. Edith, the eldest, has four children and a baby on the way. Her husband is a developer, but he dies in a car crash. Then she goes back to the village in New Hampshire where Mr. Gale grew up. Deborah, the middle daughter, is a great education reformer, in the public schools on the Lower East Side. She won’t get married at first, because she thinks a family of her own will interfere with her work, but finally she does. The youngest daughter, Laura, is terribly gay, always dashing of to parties and dances. She marries a rich man. The eschew children and religion, and have affairs instead. Then she shockingly gets a divorce, and marries the man she was having the affair with. She dares to be happy and go unpunished, though none of the family really approve.

Most of the book is a sentimental meditation on life and death. We go on in our children’s lives. It’s about the bewildering scale of life and how little of it we can really know in our short stay here, but, ah, isn’t it grand? I enjoyed it. Can’t say it was gripping. Took me several months to finish. First novel to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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kylekatz | 8 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jun 30, 2021 |
(1915) A well-to-do young man grows up in Brooklyn as the age of sail gives way to the steam age. His father is a shipping magnate, but cannot adjust to the changing times and loses all his money. The young man goes to Harvard and becomes a journalist. He writes about the great men of his class for a while, but gradually gets dragged into the plight of the working class. He writes about a strike of the stokers who make all the new ships go stoking the engines with coal in twelve hour shifts in awful conditions, but he can never quite reconcile his own life of privilege with the suffering he sees around him. In the end he stays pretty safe and nothing really changes, but he thought about the issues a lot. An incredible portrayal of New York's docks and dock workers.… (lisätietoja)
 
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kylekatz | Jul 9, 2018 |

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