The Lost Traveler [*SIGNED*]

[moderately shelfworn book, lightly bumped at several corners, slight fading to cloth at edges; jacket foxed evenly on front panel (fairly unobtrusive) with light internal dampstain, moderate wear at corners]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about a "gentleman gambler" and the effects of his nomadic and irregular lifestyle on his wife and daughters, an overlooked mid-century classic. Set in Kansas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, it was substantially autobiographical (the author being one of the daughters). She also happened, later on, to become the wife of the great cinematographer James Wong Howe, and achieved late-in-life acclaim for her novel "Whose Names Are Unknown," written in the late 1930s but unpublished until the year before her death in 2005. (It had been set for publication by Random House in 1939, but the appearance and success of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" put the kibosh on it, with Bennett Cerf telling the author that "another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax.") The author's reminiscences were featured prominently by Ken Burns in his 2012 PBS documentary "The Dust Bowl," and her remarkable life has now been chronicled in a new biography, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" by Iris Jamahl Dunkle, published by the University of California Press in 2024, which will further enhance her literary reputation (if there's any justice in the world). Signed by Author

Product Info

Publisher: Reynal & Company

Year: (c.1958)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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