His Family
“When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.”
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Ernest Poole was awarded the very first Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this novel, His Family. It traces the relationship between recently widowed Roger Gale and his three daughters. As each of his daughters charts the course of her life Roger is increasingly drawn into the arguments and tensions of family life.
Customer Reviews
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Lost American Novel, Chronicle of old New York
This functions as an easy read (clearly written) and also as a history of New York City at the beginning of the century. It is really a lost American novel by an author who has been eclipsed by O'Neill and Dreiser, unfairly so. Recommended.