New Releases by Josephine Johnson

Dodici mesi, dodici capitoli, dodici finestre aperte sul mondo naturale. Ma lo sguardo della scrittrice di successo che sceglie una vita ritirata e contempla animali, natura, cieli è lo stesso che si sofferma sugli orrori del mondo devastato da guerre e tempi moderni e stabilisce paralleli di un acume sconcertante, modernissimi perché senza tempo. Pubblicato nel 1969, questo piccolo libro è la testimonianza della vita di una donna e della tenuta che ama, e dell’invasione inesorabile di una società sempre più meccanizzata e feroce.

Cuando llegan a la granja, huyendo de la Recesión, las tres hermanas saben que pisan un terreno incierto y vacilante: su padre les advierte de que la tierra está hipotecada. Han dejado atrás su vida anterior como si nunca hubiese ocurrido, y se preguntan si habrá algún lugar en el mundo en el que haya paz o seguridad. Aprenden a labrar y a sembrar la tierra cambiante, a amarla y a recoger sus frutos, a temer la sequía y los incendios. Diez años más tarde, se han acostumbrado al ritmo de las estaciones y a una vida con tan pocas novedades que la llegada de un joven campesino trastoca para siempre el frágil equilibrio de la casa. Publicada en 1935, cuando la autora solo tenía veinticuatro años, "Ahora en noviembre" convirtió a Josephine Johnson en la escritora más joven en ser galardonada con un Pulitzer. Narra un año en la vida de una familia de agricultores, envuelta en una niebla de esperanza a pesar del miedo a la deuda y a la miseria. "Su voz es, como siempre lo ha sido, muy propia, tranquila, precisa, reflexiva, tenaz." Granville Hicks, Literary Horizons

A lost gem of twentieth-century literature, Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize–winning “exquisite…heartbreakingly real” (The New York Times Book Review) novel follows a year in the life of a family struggling to survive the Dust Bowl. Published when Josephine Johnson was only twenty-four years old, Now in November made Johnson the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. It is a beautifully told account of one farming family’s challenges to scrape by and earn a living from mortgaged land over the course of a single year, narrated by one of three sisters—the introspective and thoughtful Margaret. As the household is ravaged by Depression-era hardship and the environmental blights of the Dust Bowl, the family’s unique vulnerabilities are pushed to a breaking point. In a style typical of Johnson’s body of work, Now in November is strikingly ahead of its time, grappling with questions of mental health, worker’s rights, as well as gender, race, and class and is ready to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers.

“A beautiful book...about nature the way Walden was a book about nature. It should be read by everyone who still retains the capacity to feel anything” (The New York Times). Stunningly written and fiercely observed, a new edition of a classic work of nature writing about a year on an Ohio farm, by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Josephine Johnson. Originally published in 1969, The Inland Island is Josephine W. Johnson’s startling and brilliant chronicle of nature and the seasons at her rambling thirty-seven-acre farm in Ohio, which she and her husband reverted to wilderness with the help of a state forester. Over the course of twelve months, she observes the changing landscape with a naturalist’s precision and a poet’s evocative language. Readers will marvel at the way she brings to life flashes of beauty, the inexorable cycle of growth and decay, and the creatures who live alongside her, great and small. A forerunner of iconic American women nature writers and a champion of civil rights who marched in Washington against the Vietnam war, Johnson intersperses these “delicate marvels” (The New York Times) with profound reflections about racial inequality, urbanization, social justice, and environmental destruction that speak powerfully to our time. Ready to be rediscovered by a new generation, The Inland Island is a vital and relevant meditation on nature and time, capturing the wonder, beauty, hope—and flaws—of our turbulent world.

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Sono passati dieci anni da quando gli Haldmarne hanno lasciato i modesti agi della vita di città per tornare alla terra di famiglia. Kerrin, Merle e Marget sono diventate grandi in campagna, divise tra i doveri pesantissimi del lavoro quotidiano ("quella confusione che è la nostra vita e che ci impedisce di essere davvero vivi") e l''incanto dell''infanzia passata all''aria aperta, respirando paesaggi che mutano di ora in ora. Mentre per Marget e Merle la natura è fame e cibo insieme, e riesce a placare le loro ansie di crescita, Kerrin è selvatica e strana, rosa da un''inquietudine feroce che nemmeno la salda presenza della madre riesce a contenere. La terra è gravata da un''ipoteca che pesa come un macigno sull''anima già inasprita del padre e sparge insicurezza in famiglia. Mentre una siccità senza tregua devasta i raccolti, ad alleviare le fatiche degli Haldmarne arriva un giovane uomo assoldato come bracciante. Grant ha studiato, è stato in città; riesce a far sorridere le ragazze, a distrarle, ma anche a dividerle. E intanto la pioggia non arriva, e le stravaganze di Kerrin sfociano in una vena di follia. È Marget, ora che è novembre e tutto si è concluso, a raccontarci la storia di una famiglia che si sgretola, del mondo agreste che là fuori si sfalda sotto un sole impietoso, delle disgrazie che si abbattono una dopo l''altra sugli Haldmarne e sui loro vicini, senza risparmiare nessuno. Una voce, la sua, che è a un tempo lucida e lirica, pacata e graffiante, concitata e riflessiva: la voce straordinaria di una scrittrice che giovanissima ha scritto il suo capolavoro.

Humorous diaries written from the perspective of cats provide commentary on the life of author, Josephine Johnson.

The passionate man who loves with strength and lives with violence... The silent, lonely boy who exists in a world of strange loves and longings... The evil, terrifying creature of the night, which destroys as it clings, which consumes as it touches... Through a nightmare world of fear and forbidden emotions, man and boy move irrevocably towards the blinding moment of confrontation with the night creature – to the shattering revelation that they are all THE DARK TRAVELER. This gripping novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author Josephine Johnson, first published in 1963, tells the tale of a man imprisoned by a strange passions and violent fears, and of a woman who has pledged to lead him out of the darkness.

This collection of twenty-two short stories was first published in 1936, a year after Josephine Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for her debut novel Now in November. Some of these stories were published previously in magazines – The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The St. Louis Review, Hound and Horn, The Forum, The Midland – and even before Johnson was awarded the prestigious literary prize for her novel, her short fiction was praised for its evocative and perceptive content and simple but powerful style. The stories in this collection revolve around universal human cravings for love, happiness, and completion, and expose the fragile balance of human relationships. Johnson''s writing touches her readers on a personal level, evoking memories of childhood dreams, first heartbreaks, and warm summer nights in the country surrounded by the sound of cicadas and frogs...

The nostalgic, poetic and often humorous story of three actual and metaphorical voyages within the historic landscape of two world wars. On the first voyage, a young schoolgirl evacuates to America just before the Blitz; a second is made to recapture forty lost years in her beloved wealds and downs of Sussex; the last voyage she is unable or unwilling to complete. A fusion of history, personal memories and fiction, Josephine Johnson has written a moving account of an historic vessel, an ancient village and daunting tidal river through the voices of war-scarred characters, who echo the pull and tug of their native soil and the river Adur.

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A book that chronicles every lot, house and business that ever existed in the town of Barrett, Minnesota.