In My Father's House | Related Titles
Phillip Martin is a contrast to the flinty determined heroes of Catherine Cannier (1964) and Of Love and Dust (1967), even though he is a civic leader. His young assistant, Jonathan, is more typical of these feisty, earlier male characters. Gaines mentions in an interview the difficulty of writing In My Father's House, commenting that it took him much longer to write than his other books. There is also a contrast between the structure of this book and earlier ones, owing perhaps to his daring exploration of character. In the other books where characters are thwarted...
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