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Esperance. (Original novel);
Abstract
In the spring of 1939, the Bierstadt family is forced by financial failure to give up its home and move to the country to take over an inn whose principal virtue is that it is on the main route--historic Route 20--leading to the World's Fair in New York's Flushing Meadows. The family consists of Stan and Ellen along with their children, Loretta, Stefan, and Rosalind, and Ellen's mother, Hattie. They are part of an extended Polish-American family, a sprig of an ethnic group that has inhabited upstate New York from the 1880's to the present. The action of the novel occurs during a six-month period leading up to cataclysmic September 1--with tragic familial results.
Subject Area
American literature
Recommended Citation
Richnak, Barbara, "Esperance. (Original novel);" (1990). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI1339993.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI1339993