Quest, (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Quest, Tuesday, August 11 2009.

• Set amid the tobacco tenant farms of rural Kentucky, this pioneering naturalist novel (1923) tells the story of a hard-working, spirited young woman who finds herself in a soul-destroying battle with the imprisoning duties of motherhood and of managing an impoverished household. What makes Kelley’s deeply nuanced portrait so remarkable is that she depicts a woman who suffers not from any lack of love — from her husband, her children, or her community — but from a unrequited longing for freedom and self-expression. The New York Times Book Review calls the novel “unquestionably a major work of American fiction . . . a book that will astonish and enrich anyone who reads it.”

Shelfari edited the contributors of Quest, Tuesday, August 11 2009.

• Added a contributor: Helen R. Hull: (Primary Author)