The Farmer's Daughter: Novellas

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A collection of three novellas, The Farmer's Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The English Major.

"[Harrison's] sentences ... fuse on the page with a power and blunt beauty." -- Jennifer Egan "Bawdy and engaging ... Wives, daughters of America, for your reading Papa, this ribald, questing, utterly charming and Zen-serious novel ... is the book of the year." -- Alan Cheuse "Harrison's language seems to come straight from America's center of gravity, the core of the country where people still live by a code and think for themselves.... After twenty-five books Harrison is ... closing in on the status of a national treasure." -- Anthony Brandt "The English Major is to midlife crisis what The Catcher in the Rye is to adolescence....Without any preachiness or sentiment, Harrison gives us more than one dimension to live in. He gives us the four directions." -- Susan Salter Reynolds "This is a master writer who has some important things to say about life and how to live it." -- Ron Antonucci