As for Me and My House (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Sinclair Ross
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: During the Great Depression
- Setting: Horizon, a fictional town on the Canadian prairie
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Bentley, Philip Bentley, Paul Kirby, Steve Kulanich, Judith West
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Marriage, Rural or country life, Depression, economic, 1930’s, Despair, Poverty or poor people, Ministry or ministers, Adultery, Christianity, Canada or Canadians, Disasters, Natural disasters, Church or churches, Droughts
- Locales: Canada
The Novel
The narrative of As for Me and My House takes the form of Mrs. Bentley’s diary. The diary entries, spanning two springtimes during the Great Depression, recount a year in the lives of a small-town preacher and his wife in a drought-stricken prairie community. The United Church parish in Horizon is Philip Bentley’s fourth ministry in twelve years. For Mrs. Bentley, the new parish is yet another in a series of communities to which she has had to adjust over the twelve years of her childless marriage. Caught in the inexorable grind of economic dependence, the...
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