Description
Peder blames Susie for the timidity of her beliefs; Susie fears Peder's pride and skepticism. When political antagonism grows between the Norwegian and Irish immigrant communities, it threatens to split their marriage.
Against a backdrop of hard times, crisscrossed by Populists, antimonopolists, and schemers, Roelvaag brings the struggle of immigrants into the twentieth century. In Giants in the Earth the Holm family strained to wrest a homestead from the land. In Peder Victorious the American-born children searched for a new national identity, often defying the traditions their parents fought to uphold. In Their Fathers' God, Roelvaag's most soul-searching novel, the first-generation americans enter a world of ruthless competition in the midst of scarcity.
The University of Nebraska Press also publishes Peder Victorious and Paul Reigstad's Roelvaag: His Life and Art.
Reviews
"This novel, like Mr. Roelvaag's earlier ones, displays an extraordinary zest for life, and is rich in those moods and emotions which arouse in us the deepest responses."-Outlook
Book Information
ISBN 9780803289116
Author O. E. Roelvaag
Format Paperback
Page Count 338
Imprint Bison Books
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 386g
