The Legend of Strap Buckner (Holiday House, 2001)Ĭonnie is an experienced speaker and presenter who enjoys sharing her passion for writing and her experience as a writer with readers and writers of all ages.“When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things.When Esther Morris Headed West (Holiday House, 2001).Thank You Very Much, Captain Ericsson! (Holiday House, 2005 Berndtsdotter Books, 2012).The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton (Clarion Books, 2010).Just Fine They Way They Are (Calkins Creek, March 1, 2011).In addition to providing a perceptive look back at a key point in history, the book also leaves the contemporary reader with a startling question: Are things so very different today? Originally published in 1900, Theodore Dreiser described his novel “not as a piece of literary craftsmanship, but as a picture of conditions done as simply and effectively as the English language will permit.” The fact that he achieved his goal so masterfully goes a long way toward explaining how a story that might have been brushed aside as a soap opera has, instead, endured as a classic.
We look through her eyes with a sort of double vision: As she covets the dresses and shoes on view in new “retail combinations” called department stores, we see the claws of materialistic consumerism beginning to take hold when she justifies becoming the mistress of two men in succession in order to afford the things she so badly wants, we see the Victorian moral code rendered obsolete by Darwinian thinking as Carrie’s fortunes rise and those of her second lover decline, we see the dark underbelly of the American Dream. In 1889, when nineteen-year-old Carrie Meeber, arrives in Chicago from a small town to look for a job, she is, by turns, dazzled and defeated by big-city life. 352 pages (paperback) $7.00 reading level: high school/adult. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Dover Thrift Editions, 2004 (first edition Doubleday, 1900).
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