Early Autumn

by Louis Bromfield

Overview

"EARLY AUTUMN" is the tale of the struggle between life and death in a New England family, old and decayed, but of a high name and tradition once distinguished in the history of America. Its chief character is Olivia Pentland, beautiful, an "outsider" from Chicago who married into the family, battling to save herself from the attraction of a fascinating politician of the new school and to save her daughter from the blight that touches everything in the Pentland family.

This novel is the third panel in Louis Bromfield's "screen of American Life." Preceding it were "THE GREEN BAY TREE" and "POSSESSION;" concluding the "screen" was "A GOOD WOMAN." Of these four distinguished and highly praised novels, "EARLY AUTUMN" has won perhaps the greatest fame. It was awarded The Pulitzer Prize for Literature and its publication established beyond question the high position of Louis Bromfield among contemporary authors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823179737
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/03/2023
Pages:	110
Sales rank:	509,422
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for "Early Autumn," founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.

In November 1925, Bromfield moved to Paris, where he became associated with many of the central figures of the Lost Generation, especially Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, "Early Autumn" is a harsh portrait of his wife's Puritan New England background. “He is, of all the young American novelists, pre-eminently the best and most vital,” John Carter wrote that year in the New York Times.

Bromfield continued to write best-selling novels in the late 1920s and early 1930s, including "A Good Woman," "The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spraag" and "The Farm," an autobiographical novel that romanticized his family's agrarian past. He also worked briefly in Hollywood as a contract screenwriter for Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.