Three Parts Earth: A Novel

This is the Second Printing from March 1973. The First Printing was in April 1972. This Book is in overall Good Condition. Ex-Library with some Library Markings: Spine Label, a Card Pocket on the Front End Page, and some Library Stamps on the Interior and Bottom Page Edge. The Dust Jacket (protected by a Dust Jacket Protector which is taped to the Boards) has Light Creasing along the Edges but No Tears, Stains, or Other Major Damage. The Hardcover Boards have a Light Bump to the Bottom Fore Edge Corner of the Rear Cover but No Tears, Stains, or Other Major Damage. The Binding is Intact but Lightly Sagging. The Interior is Clean and Unmarked (other than the Library Markings) with No Writing, Highlighting, or Underlining and with No Tears, Creases, Stains, Foxing, or Other Major Damage. The Page Edges have some Soiling but No Remainder Mark, Foxing, Stains, or Other Major Damage.

Book Description: From the environment of Middle-America and straight out of the background of the nation's history, set during the years 1908 to 1917, comes this moving recreation of a childhood seen from the crossroads perspective of a girl's thirteenth year. With flawless characterization, with simple and unshrinking honesty, with perfect use of the old English-American idiom, Mrs. Frederikson tells the story of a little girl, Delphine Doud, who at first accepts unthinkingly her family's impoverished and nomadic condition, then starts to question it, then with her dawning intelligence begins to work her way out of it. What other writers say of Three Parts Earth — "A delight...Its complete honesty, and its plunge forthright into all the color and feel of the world, and...the writing—I think it all truly good." — Eudora Welty, author of Losing Battles. "No one has written just this kind of book before. It is a jewel, and stands by itself...A novel for the connoisseur as well as for the general reader." — Irma Friedrich, author of The Separated Island.