| Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later Contributor(s): Rölvaag, O. E. (Author), Haugen, Einar (Translator), Gvale, Gudrun Hovde (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0803289065 ISBN-13: 9780803289062 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1982 Annotation: The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 81016402 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.28" W x 7.99" (0.83 lbs) 325 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Peder Victorious, the sequel to R lvaag's massive Giants in the Earth, continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, R lvaag's vikings of the prairie--Per Hansa's Beret and their children, Syvert T nseten and Kjersti, and S rine. The great struggle against the land itself has been won. Now there is to be a second struggle, a struggle to adapt, to become Americans.The development of the Spring Creek settlement in these years is manifested in the rebellious growing up of Peder Victorious. Peder is a beautiful and moving novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is the story, too, of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children, what R lvaag described as the true tragedy of the immigrants, who made their children part of a world to which they themselves could never belong.Out of the inevitable conflict between the first-generation American and his still Norwegian mother, R lvaag built a powerful novel of personal growth, guilt, and victory. |