My home is far away
By: Dawn Powell ; foreword by Tim Page.
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: South Royalton, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Sisters -- Fiction; Ohio -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: One of the permanent masterpieces of childhood, comparable with David Copperfield, What Maisie Knew and the early reminiscences of Colette" (New York Times Book Review). In this family chronicle set at the turn of the century, and the most autobiographical of Powell's novels, young Marcia Willard's family struggles to keep up with the changing times and Marcia endures disillusionment and cruelty to forge a survivor's sense of independence.
Notes: Originally published: Scribner's, 1944.