Yonnondio (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tillie Olsen
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Children, Family or family life, Suffering, United States or Americans, 1920’s, Poverty or poor people, Domestic violence, Women’s issues, Farms, farmers, or farming, Working class, Mines, miners, or mining, Tragedy, Proletariat
- Locales: Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Omaha, NE
The manuscript of Yonnondio: From the Thirties was lost to Tillie Olsen for more than thirty years before being accidentally discovered by her husband, who was looking for other papers. A portion of the novel had been published in 1934 in The Partisan Review, a journal devoted to socialist writing. Although the story was well received by critics, Olsen never completed the novel. Instead, she reared a family of four children and worked at part-time jobs for most of her adult life until the 1961 publication of Tell Me a Riddle. This collection of stories led to the...
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