Capital City

Mari Sandoz author Terese Svoboda editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Published:1st Nov '07

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First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, this novel is a portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains. It examines the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power.First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, Capital City is Mari Sandoz’s angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s—John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Jack Conroy’s The Disinherited, Robert Cantwell's Land ofPlenty—Capital City depicts the troubles of working people trapped in the Great Depression. A unique portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains, it examines the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power. Sandoz researched the daily life and behind-the-scenes operations of several state capitals in the thirties before synthesizing them in this novel, which is part allegory, part indictment, part warning. Famous for her passionate writing, Sandoz imbued Capital City with the full measure of her outrage.

"The violence in this new novel is almost unrelieved by any sweetness or light... This novel is strong meat; not at all for the squeamish." Saturday Review of Literature

ISBN: 9780803260313

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 386g

352 pages

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