Strait Gate

[light shelfwear, spotting on top edge, gilt lettering on spine and front cover still bright; jacket lightly edgeworn, a couple of unobtrusive tears, small chip at top of spine]. A tale of a woman aviator that (it sez here) "soars on the wings of adventure and romance." Its protagonist is a headstrong young woman who rebels against societal expectations, and finds "the passionate, guiding interest which was to dominate her life" when she's "tricked by a roadhouse party into an unwanted ride in a plane." As a result of this thrilling experience, she "developed flying fever, went to Europe, where she learned the ins and outs of aviation, and to the supreme horror of her clannish family as well as of the community, became a pilot." This California author, described in the jacket blurb as "an ardent flying fan," was active in Republican politics; she and her husband (a former state senator) had a cattle ranch outside Los Gatos, and got really cranked up about "The Grapes of Wrath." Ruth in fact went on a bit of a crusade against the Steinbeck novel, which she felt painted California's agricultural interests in an unfairly unflattering light; the culmination of her efforts was her own 1940 novel, "Of Human Kindness," in which a fine upstanding farmer and his family fight the good fight against the perfidy and agitation of migrant workers, union organizers, liberal academics, and Communists.

Product Info

Publisher: D. Appleton-Century Company

Year: 1935

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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