Faith Sullivan, Author Penguin Books $15 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-011979-4
``This is the kind of old-fashioned novel whose period flavor is as enjoyable as the story it tells,'' remarked PW . Set in the small town of Harvester, Minn., during the Depression, the tale features a six-year-old narrator, Lark Ann Erhardt, who...
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Faith Sullivan, Author Milkweed Editions $24.95 (381p) ISBN 978-1-57131-045-3
Abandoning Depression-ravaged Minnesota and the alcoholic husband who drank away the family savings, Arlene Erhardt moves to California in early 1942 in search of a new life, bringing along her sister Betty and daughter Lark, the too-precocious...
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Faith Sullivan, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $16.3 (341p) ISBN 978-0-02-615450-5
Larissa is approaching 50, her children are grown and marrying, her preoccupied husband, Bart, is engrossed in writing a book that threatens to take over his life. For her part, Larissa paints, reads, muses, rows across the river near their...
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Faith Sullivan, Author Crown Publishers $18.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-517-56930-6
This is the kind of old-fashioned novel whose period flavor is as enjoyable as the story it tells. Set in the small town of Harvester, Minn., during the Depression, it is narrated by six-year-old Lark Ann Erhardt, who recounts a pivotal year in her...
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Faith Sullivan, Author Random House (NY) $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-50390-0
In keeping with her tradition of creating strong heroines, Sullivan (The Cape Ann) casts three generations of hardy smalltown Minnesota women in an empathetic post-WWII drama. A careless ""Way Back When"" filler in the local Harvester, Minn.,...
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Faith Sullivan. Milkweed (PGW, dist.), $26 (456p) ISBN 978-1-57131-111-5
This well-told, appealing book from Minnesota native Sullivan (The Cape Ann) is the latest installment in her cycle of Harvester novels. Nell Stillman is a widow and third-grade schoolteacher living in the rural town of Harvester, Minn., in the late-
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Faith Sullivan. Milkweed, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-571-31132-0
Set in the early 1900s, this moving tale from Sullivan (Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse) centers on the romance between a farmhand and a farmer. Ruby Drake is orphaned at age 12 after her parents freeze to death. Her last living relative, a great aunt,...
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