Publication

1994 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

78,500 words, Guess

Page Count

314 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads398108
  • LibraryThing1133121

Classifications

  • DDC813/.52
  • LCCPS3545.A524 F57 1994

Description

Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of Swedish, German, and Finnish lore. Young Celie and her husband, Joe Linsen, are the children of Scandinavian pioneers. Radios and flivvers have enlarged her world, and she longs to escape from an isolated place where wild violet fireweed grows to the edge of the woods.

Subjects

Topics

FictionMarriageYoung womenLumber tradeFiction, generalMichigan, fictionUpper Peninsula (Mich.) -- Fiction

Other Editions

  • FireweedUniversity of Nebraska Press1994-01-01

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