The Works of Love (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Plot: Regional romance
- Time of Work: From the 1880’s to the 1930’s
- Setting: Nebraska, California, and Chicago
- Principal Characters: Will Jennings Brady, Ethel Czerny Bassett, Will Brady, Jr., Gertrude Long, T. P. Luckett
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Alienation, Midwest, Chicago, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Adoption or adopted children, Loneliness, Nebraska
- Locales: California, Chicago, IL, Nebraska
The Novel
Set for the most part in the desolate plains and dusty small towns of eastern Nebraska, The Works of Love traces the history of a naive man and his difficulties in feeling at home with his fellow-man.
Orphaned at an early age, Will Brady has no option but to take the world as he finds it. His lack of culture and education indicate that he has no means of understanding the world. He has, however, no inclination to understand it. He gets to know his limitations and frustrations as an intermittent series of pangs occasioned by nocturnal glimpses of the...
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