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Lamps at High Noon
Jack S. Balch
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Description for Lamps at High Noon
Paperback. The Federal Arts Projects were created by FDR in the summer of 1935. A year later, a handful of writers employed in the St Louis office of the Missouri Writers' Project, including Jack Balch, went out on strike. This title describes this strike and treats comprehensively various aspects of the Federal Writers' Project. Series: The Radical Novel Reconsidered. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; C. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
The Federal Arts Projects were created by FDR in the summer of 1935. A year later, a handful of writers employed in the St. Louis office of the Missouri Writers' Project, including Jack Balch, went out on strike. Lamps at High Noon is the only novel about this strike and the only one to treat comprehensively any aspect of the Federal Writers' Project, whose participants included some of the country's most accomplished and promising authors.
Charlie Gest, the wide-eyed and well-intentioned protagonist of the novel, confronts firsthand the project's sometimes underhanded efforts to monitor the political views ... Read more
The Federal Arts Projects were created by FDR in the summer of 1935. A year later, a handful of writers employed in the St. Louis office of the Missouri Writers' Project, including Jack Balch, went out on strike. Lamps at High Noon is the only novel about this strike and the only one to treat comprehensively any aspect of the Federal Writers' Project, whose participants included some of the country's most accomplished and promising authors.
Charlie Gest, the wide-eyed and well-intentioned protagonist of the novel, confronts firsthand the project's sometimes underhanded efforts to monitor the political views ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
The Radical Novel Reconsidered
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069390
SKU
V9780252069390
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Reviews for Lamps at High Noon
Washington Post Book World listed as a new paperback edition "by people who weren't afraid to write about the working man, about class and social and economic injustices and other unsexy topics."