Belly Fulla Straw

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, spine slightly turned, some soiling to top edge of text block; the jacket is faded along the spine, but otherwise shows no significant wear]. Novel of a Dutch immigrant family adjusting to their new lives after settling in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's particularly rough on the father, a "sturdy, solid, practical [man], a good father and a good provider; but a man, too, of fine instincts and old-world integrity who cannot be reconciled to the cheap, vulgar babbittry of the life around him." This was the author's first novel, and is clearly autobiographical (his family came from Holland to Grand Rapids in 1914, just as did the family in the book). Over the course of his career he wrote thirteen novels, five children’s books, several books of poetry and many short stories. Hanna 957. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." .