Family (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ian Frazier
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1638-1990
- Setting: Ohio and Indiana
- Principal Characters: Ian Frazier, David Frazier, Margaret (Peggy) Kathryn (Kate) Hursh Frazier, Edwin Ray Frazier, Cora Wickham Frazier, Harry Edwin Frazier, Louis W. Wickham, Osinander Amariah Sylvester (O. A. S.) Hursh, Osinander (Osie) Chapman Hursh, Flora (“Barbar”) Emily Sophia Bachman Hursh
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Genealogy, Suicide, Authors or writers, World War II, Midwest, Social life, Cancer, American Revolution, Civil War, Farms, farmers, or farming
- Locales: Ohio, Indiana
Ian Frazier’s book, which bears the naïve title Family, is considerably more complex than its title suggests. It is neither a purely biographical study of family history, nor an overview of town life in the Midwest, nor an examination of technological growth in the United States, although it is partly all of these. Some readers may find its eclecticism disconcerting; its organization is prismatic rather than chronological, and the immediate effect upon a reader can be bewildering, akin to that of a guest who arrives late at a party of strangers. Names come in quick succession,...
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