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These novels evoke a particular time and
place so strongly that historical forces seem to determine much of what
the characters experience and even to shape them. Alice Walker's Meridian
has
been called the best novel to come out of the civil rights movement, and
Rosellen Brown's Civil Wars explores the aftermath of that struggle.
Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop is a fictionalized
life of Archbishop Lamy, the first bishop appointed for the territory of
New Mexico after its annexation to the United States. Doctorow's Loon
Lake concerns characters indirectly shaped by the class conflicts of
the Depression.
Alice Walker, Merdian
Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Rosellen Brown, Civil Wars
E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake
This reading list was developed through the Book Discussion Programs,
a collaborative project of the New Hampshire
Humanities Council and the New
Hampshire State Library. |
