Beyond the Bedroom Wall (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Woiwode
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Plot: Domestic chronicle
- Time of Work: From 1935 to the mid-1960’s
- Setting: North Dakota, Illinois, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Charles Neumiller, Martin, Alpha Jones, Charles, Jerome, Tim, Marie, Susan, Laura
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s
- Locales: New York, NY
The Novel
A sprawling, episodic family history, Beyond the Bedroom Wall conveys with extraordinary fidelity and an enlightening sense of wonder the lives of ordinary people. It focuses on the Neumiller family, originally of North Dakota, but ranges over their extended families, their antecedents, and their communities. In doing so, the novel succeeds at times, without particularly attempting to, in surpassing the conventions of its genre. It attains an idiosyncratic, though nevertheless authentic, eminence as an anthropology of the affections.
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