Whose Names Are Unknown
Download or Read eBook Whose Names Are Unknown PDF written by Sanora Babb and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Sanora Babb |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2012-11-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780806180786 |
ISBN-13 | : 0806180781 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Whose Names Are Unknown by : Sanora Babb
Book excerpt: Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience. Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939. Editor Bennett Cerf planned to publish this “exceptionally fine” novel but when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath swept the nation, Cerf explained that the market could not support two books on the subject.