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...Town, by Conrad Richter. Hard work and lusty humors in the building of Ohio; good fictional Americana in a novel that brings Richter's trilogy to an end with the Civil War (TIME...
...Town, by Conrad Richter. Hard work and lusty humors in the building of Ohio; good fictional Americana in a novel that brings Richter's trilogy to an end with the Civil War (TIME...
...stories can grip the American imagination so much as that of the pioneer, his hardships, his courage, his eccentricities. Once in a while, a really good writer retells it and then the pioneer's story seems as fresh as the land he settled. Such a writer is Conrad Richter, a 59-year-old Pennsylvanian who also spends part of his time in New Mexico. Though his novels lack the color of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s The Way West (TIME, Oct. 17), they have an impressive honesty and an authentic flavor of their...
...Town is the third volume in Richter's trilogy of Ohio from post-Revolutionary War times to the Civil War (the first two: The Trees, The Fields), and starts after the War of 1812. Richter picks up his story at the point where pioneer Ohio, its woods cleared and safe, is becoming a town society. Sayward Wheeler, a hardworking, sweet-souled "woodsy," and her lawyer-husband, Portius, could now relax and enjoy life. With loping, casually connected episodes, Richter tells how the nine Wheeler children grow up, how Sayward reluctantly agrees to leave her cabin for a fancy house...
...Town is written in pioneer idiom; sometimes it gets to be a strain watching Richter strain for colorful expressions. But when he succeeds, they're good, e.g., "You wouldn't reckon to look at her she could read a lick, but she'd turn the old page and suck out the meaning of the new like a bird pulling out a worm...