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...PRIMITIVE (460 pp.)-Feike Feikema-Doubleday...
THIS IS THE YEAR (623 pp.)-Feike Feikema-Doubleday...
Much of the book's flavor is due to the presence of the old people with their Frisian speech (which is close to the Anglo-Saxon), their memories and legends of old Friesland. The story is told almost season by season, chore by chore. Author Feikema excels in descriptions of plowing, cultivating, reaping, threshing. Sometimes sensitively, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes with embarrassing rhetoric he has written a unique regional novel...
...faith in the earth," it is also a novel of bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The theme is large, simple and an incitement to soil conservation. At times the treatment has an earthy swell and eloquence. But Author Feikema works his lesson so hard that before readers reach the end of the book, they will be worn...