Capital City

First published in the dark days immediately before World War II, "Capital City" is Mari Sandoz's angriest and most political novel. Like many important American novels of the 1930s - John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath", Jack Conroy's "The Disinherited", Robert Cantwell's "Land of Plenty" - "Capital City" depicts the troubles of working people trapped in the Great Depression. A unique portrayal of how the Depression affected the Great Plains, it examines the forces that bitterly contended for wealth and power. Sandoz researched the daily life and behind-the-scenes operations of several state capitals in the thirties before synthesizing them in this novel, which is part allegory, part indictment, part warning. Famous for her passionate writing, Sandoz imbued "Capital City" with the full measure of her outrage.

ISBN 0803260318   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780803260313 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher University of Nebraska Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Bison Books   Weight (grammes) 381 Format Paperback   Published in Nebraska Publication date 14 Dec 2007   Height (mm) 202 Writer of introduction Terese Svoboda   Width (mm) 136 Library of Congress PS3537   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 813.52   Academic level General

"The violence in this new novel is almost unrelieved by any sweetness or light... This novel is strong meat; not at all for the squeamish." Saturday Review of Literature

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