The Store (The Library of Alabama Classics)
Set in a town in southern Alabama, the novel is a social study of the decline of the old South and the rise of a new merchant class. It shows how family honor and tradition are unsettled by economic interests and the pressures of modernization.
Work Information
Community change collides with family pride and the logic of business.
A social novel that views the clash between southern commercial change and inherited values through family and community life.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Alabama Pr
- Published
- 1985-08-30
- Pages
- 592 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 3.56 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780817302511
- ISBN-10
- 0817302514
- Price
- 9288 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
The Pulitzer prize-winning The Store is the second novel of Stribling’s monumental trilogy set in the author’s native Tennessee Valley region of north Alabama. The action begins in 1884, the year in which Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War; and it centers about the emergence of a figure of wealth in the city of Florence. In The Store , Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters. In the New Yorker , reviewer Robert M. Coates compared Stribling with Mark Twain in his ability to convey the very life and movement” of a small Southern town: Groups move chatting under the trees or stand loitering in the courthouse square, townsfolk gather at political speakings’ and drift homeward separately afterward; always, in their doings, one has the sense of a whole community surrounding them, binding them together.” Gerald Bullet wrote in The New Statesman and Nation that the novel is a first-rate book filled with diverse and vital characters; and much of it cannot be read without that primitive excitement, that eagerness to know what comes next, which is, after all, the triumph of the good story teller.”
Randy K. Cross is on the English faculty at John C. Calhoun State College in Decatur, Alabama.
Reviews
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A must read for history lovers, who want an ...
A must read for history lovers ,who want an honest look at the south during pre-civil war and reconstruction.
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Pulitzer Prize?
You must be able to tolerate the N word to read this book. Things have changed culturally since this was written, and sympathy for the main character is no longer something our culture allows easily. I did not think the plot was worth the length of this book. I certainly did not feel the depth of the story line like I have with other Pulitzer Prize winners.
Related Literary Awards
- Pulitzer Prize Edition 17 (1933) ・Winner