ON SARPY CREEK

by Ira Stephens Nelson ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 11, 1938

A stirring book, which in its very simplicity has a strength and beauty that makes it stand out from a hundred and one better than adequate books dealing with the struggles of simple people to make ends meet and to pit their strength against the capriciousness of nature. The setting is Montana; the people are the farmers and their families, on the surface kindly, God- fearing men and women, leading exemplary lives. And underneath there all sorts of conflicting passions, loves and hates. There is Case, who worshipped his good little wife, Sareeny, but was stirred by his passion for the Indian girl, who bore two children for him; there is Jacob, black sheep and wastrel, whose wife, Frace, wins the loyalty of his family and takes her place with them, while he goes out to sink lower in the scale of life; there is Dorcy, who stands her husband's mistreatment of herself, but who kills him when he grabs his dead son by the hair to force him to be up and about. Not just another ""book of the soil"" but a book of human beings and quiet drama and unstudied simplicity. A book worth the same sort of backing that you gave South Moon Under and Lamb in His Bosom.

Pub Date: April 11, 1938

ISBN: 1931832366

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1938

Categories: FICTION