Peace River Country

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1958 Doubleday and Company, New York. 1958. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for FO name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Fine-; scant head and tail bumping. DJ: Near Fine-; 3 small closed tears to panel tops; sight suntanning to spine. Yellow grained boards with red overlay on the spine with yellow lettering on the spine. 221 pp 8vo. The effects of "taking up with strangers" is reflected in the stay of Harold and Kally Sondern and their mother in Elevator, Saskatchewan, Canada. They have come here from the towns of Dobie and Regina, making their way until Chris Sondern, their father, proves he can be cured of his chronic alcoholism and go with them to Peace River country. While they travel and move on, he fights his losing battle with the bottle and bottle-loving friends along the way. Living with the Chatsworths in Elevator, Harold's friendship with a baseball hero is the means of separating Vannie Chatsworth from her possessive mother and his club initiation is the cause of Mr. Chatsworth's defending him. These are the terminal acts that drive Mrs. Chatsworth to get in touch with his father and Chris, for the first time, heads immediately for his family. But Mrs. Sondern, knowing the time has not yet come, travels on to Moose Jaw and there, Chris, desperately hunting for them, meets with the accident that kills him....And the three continue their interrupted way to Peace River country. Nomads of the late '30's, the Sonderns' small struggles are pathetic and gallant, sorry and funny, dogged and loving, in which defeat is never admitted. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.