Dec 19, 2009

Beyond the Bedroom Wall | Beyond the Bedroom Wall

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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Beyond the Bedroom Wall | Beyond the Bedroom Wall

At a glance:

The Novel

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