SLOGUM HOUSE

by Mari Sandoz ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 27, 1937

The author of Old jules shows the same evidence of identity with the West of which she writes that she did in that inimitable biography. Once again she taps the life blood, the bones and sinews of America in a powerful and stirring novel off the growth of the western territory, a novel of primitive lusts and passions which somehow symbolizes the brutal and relentless and impersonal cruelty which seem inevitable in the beginnings of new country and so-called progress. it horrifies while it grips one. It has something of the power of Faulkner's Sanctuary, something of its depravity, but one feels that it is part of something larger, rather than a sordid bit of forgotten and unrecognized ugliness. There is little of relief in this story of a woman who betrayed herself, her family, and the finer feelings of humanity in her inexorable ambition and drive; there are only two or three sympathetic characters in her canvas; but there is a force and driving power that carries one, absorbed, from the first page to the last.

Pub Date: Nov. 27, 1937

ISBN: 080329123X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1937

Categories: FICTION