{"product_id":"a-son-of-the-middle-border-9780873515658","title":"A Son of the Middle Border","description":"A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who--informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie--would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Dean Howell, and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful yet hard land. This definitive book placed Garland among such regionalist writers as Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHamlin Garland (1860-1940), author of more than 40 books, is best known for his short story collection \u003ci\u003eMain-Travelled Roads\u003c\/i\u003e. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918 and won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1922.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Borealis Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330147684626,"sku":"9780873515658","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43a0bf1c-f4ad-424c-9051-e43442d73aed.jpg?v=1737063279","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-son-of-the-middle-border-9780873515658","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}