Their Fathers' God

Name: Their Fathers' God
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ISBN: 9780803289116

ISBN-10: 0803289111

ISBN-13: 9780803289116

Edition: 1983 (Reprint)

Authors: O. E. Rï¿½lvaag, Trygve M. Ager, O. Rolvaag

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Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering. Susie believes they are being tested by their fathers' God. Peder blames Susie for the timidity of her beliefs; Susie fears Peder's pride and skepticism. When political antagonism grows between the Norwegian and Irish immigrant communities, it threatens to split their marriage. Against a backdrop of hard times, crisscrossed by Populists, antimonopolists, and schemers, Rölvaag brings the struggle of immigrants into the twentieth century. InGiants in the Earththe Holm family strained to…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 1/1/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English