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“There’s only seven inches of soil between us and starvation.”
Two brothers, tenant farmers, face losing their land in 1930s Oklahoma.
While one brother looks toward the labor movement for justice, the other
turns to stealing. A few days after the publication of this novel, John
Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath hit the bookstores, eclipsing
The Stricklands. This lost literary gem from 1939 is rediscovered
in the University of Oklahoma Press reprinting.
Read an Excerpt courtesy of The University of Oklahoma Press
Reviews "The
Stricklands is built out of the very soil of the Oklahoma hills.
All the strange new melange that makes Oklahoma the strangest and most
interesting of states are genetically part of the story. . . A week
after reading it, The Stricklands leaves an impression of power,
of remembered pleasure, of a good bet for the Pulitzer Prize." "It
is skillfully woven, exciting melodrama, highly flavored with the salt
of social realism." "There
is no book to lay beside it for comparison. The best elements of a labor
story, of crime provoked through ignorance, of tragic love, and of family
loyalty have been fused in the same book." Return to The Stricklands Links
About the Author Information on Edwin Lanham is included in Lawrence Rodgers Introduction to the book. Edwin Lanham bio from The Handbook of Texas Online Return to The Stricklands Links
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