American family / by Faith Baldwin. [print]

By:

Baldwin, Faith, 1893-1978 [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Mattituck, New York : Amereon, [<199?>]Description: xi, 388 pages : 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

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LOC classification:

PS3505.A447 1990
PS3505.U97.B181.A447 1990

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Contents:

Foreword Prologue: Eastern Passage Youth: 1864-1894 Maturity: 1903-1917 Bibliography.

Review: When an author has allowed herself to grind out potboilers over a span of years, she rarely can come through with a book out of the rut she has made for herself. Consequently, it is something of a triumph for Faith Baldwin to doff her hardboiled sophistication, her play for quick rentals, and publish as fine and as satisfactory a book as this. The story of a man with an unattainable dream:- a chronological novel, beginning with David's father, Josiah Condit, and his setting out with his wife for a mission in China, on a clipper ship in 1861, and continuing to David's loss of his dream of China with America's entry into the war. It is primarily David's story, and that of the three women he loved, of his children, and of a life of adjustment to demands superimposed by his family. There is a suggestion of The Last Adam, perhaps; and at the beginning, something of the flavor of The Sea Witch. All in all https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/faith-baldwin-4/american-family/

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor	Non-fiction	PS3505.U97 B353 1935 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001668793

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Foreword Prologue: Eastern Passage Youth: 1864-1894 Maturity: 1903-1917 Bibliography.

When an author has allowed herself to grind out potboilers over a span of years, she rarely can come through with a book out of the rut she has made for herself. Consequently, it is something of a triumph for Faith Baldwin to doff her hardboiled sophistication, her play for quick rentals, and publish as fine and as satisfactory a book as this. The story of a man with an unattainable dream:- a chronological novel, beginning with David's father, Josiah Condit, and his setting out with his wife for a mission in China, on a clipper ship in 1861, and continuing to David's loss of his dream of China with America's entry into the war. It is primarily David's story, and that of the three women he loved, of his children, and of a life of adjustment to demands superimposed by his family. There is a suggestion of The Last Adam, perhaps; and at the beginning, something of the flavor of The Sea Witch. All in all

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/faith-baldwin-4/american-family/

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