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266 Pages. A 1975 reprint of the 1948 copyright. No marks or stamps. Tight square bookwith a faultless interior. Light wear to cover edges and corners This is a novel of a time and a place, and of a people who lived in that time and place. It is a novel told in a distinctive voice - the voice of one who understood the times, who felt the place, who knew the deeper instincts as well as the frustrating problems of the people. Finally, it is a novel of Elof Lofblorn's successful attempt to find himself in a world of time, place, and people. The time is the Great Depression of the 1930s, when men of all ages roamed the country looking for work. With hardship in the cities and in the countryside, there was little work to be found. Young men, looking for a place, looking for success, found no place to go, found that they were lucky just to survive. Bread was a nickel a loaf, but many a man didn't have a nickel. Studs Terkel's Hard Times paints a picture of the spirit of shame and defeat and hopelessness- the sense of failure - created in men by these times. Frederick Manfred's Elof Lofblom is a young man who has looked for a place in this world without finding one, and he has come back to the home place, come back not defeated but needing to lick his wounds and gain strength before returning to the struggle.…