A Family TrustJonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same timerich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at first understands fine, satisfying, rewarding book, the work of a mature and accomplished novelist," upon the book's initial publication in 1978. The passing of Amos Rising, town elder and editor of The Dement Intelligencer, leaves the Rising family without a patriarch and the town with a hole in its center. The ambitions and talents of the Risings, the changing face of the town and the life of the spirited, intelligent, and attractive Dana Rising fill the pages of this extraordinary novel. Ward Just's A Family Trust is about the public face and private souls of America's Heartland in the same way his other novels are about Germany, Vietnam, or Washington D.C. The time has come to bring A Family Trust back into print. |
Contents
Section 16 | 149 |
Section 17 | 159 |
Section 18 | 180 |
Section 19 | 188 |
Section 20 | 195 |
Section 21 | 201 |
Section 22 | 204 |
Section 23 | 231 |
Section 9 | 75 |
Section 10 | 81 |
Section 11 | 107 |
Section 12 | 112 |
Section 13 | 127 |
Section 14 | 129 |
Section 15 | 145 |
Section 24 | 251 |
Section 25 | 278 |
Section 26 | 289 |
Section 27 | 295 |
Section 28 | 305 |
Section 29 | 327 |
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Page 10 - This view is equally erroneous with that which regards the Indian as a creature possessing the human form but divested of all other attributes of humanity, and whose traits of character, habits, modes of life, disposition, and savage customs disqualify him from the exercise of all rights and privileges, even those pertaining to life itself. Taking him as we find him, at peace or at war, at...
Page 10 - ... never trespassing upon the rights of others. This view is equally erroneous with that which regards the Indian as a creature possessing the human form but divested of all other attributes of humanity, and whose traits of character, habits, modes of life, disposition, and savage customs disqualify him from the exercise of all rights and privileges, even those pertaining to life itself.