The Time of Man: A Novel

I loved this book. It reminded me si much of my maternal grandma and grandpa, who were tenant farmers in Missouri in the early twentieth century. The writing evokes the sights, smells and feeling of being in the country, poignantly recalling to my mind weekends spent on the farm. Even the poverty is the same. A beautifully written book.

2929 The Time of Man A Novel by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (read 17 Nov 1996) This is the author's first novel, published to "almost universal acclaim" in 1926. It is a story laid in Kentucky, dealing entirely with poor farmers. It uses the idiom of central Kentucky, which I had no trouble following, and tells of Ellen Chesser from age 13 to mid-age: poor, hard-working, stark--with a certain poetry in her awful existence. I feel it was well worth reading.