Time of Man

by Roberts (Author)

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Paperback
2001
$34.77

Considered her finest work and an American classic, Roberts's novel traces the coming of age of Ellen Chesser, the daughter of a poor itinerant farmer. Against all privations and the forces that would subdue her, Ellen is sustained by a sense of wonder and by an awareness of her own being. Reduced to the bare elements of life, her world becomes a ceremony of daily duties that bind her to the natural world and her family. The Time of Man stands as a beautifully written tribute to the human spirit.

Synopsis

Considered her finest work and an American classic, Roberts's novel traces the coming of age of Ellen Chesser, the daughter of a poor itinerant farmer. Against all privations and the forces that would subdue her, Ellen is sustained by a sense of wonder and by an awareness of her own being. Reduced to the bare elements of life, her world becomes a ceremony of daily duties that bind her to the natural world and her family. The Time of Man stands as a beautifully written tribute to the human spirit.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 420
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 15 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0813109817
ISBN 13: 9780813109817

Media Reviews

This is a book that embraces life.... [I]t is written in a prose at once lucid and arresting, rhythmical, fresh in phrasing and construction, giving always the effect of effortless arrangement. -- New York Times

Originally published in 1926, this re-released epic novel of Americana is now considered a classic. -- Kentucky Living

Original, powerful, and, without ever verging upon sentimentality, tender. -- Saturday Review of Literature

One of the most authentic and moving depictions of a woman's identity and experience I have ever read.... I felt the same shock of recognition and revelation upon reading The Time of Man that I did when I read Their Eyes Were Watching God. -- Appalachian Journal