{"product_id":"yonnondio-from-the-thirties-by-tillie-olsen","title":"'Yonnondio: From the Thirties' by Tillie Olsen","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"610\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eWritten in the 1930s but left unfinished for decades before its eventual publication in 1974, \u003cem data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"171\"\u003eYonnondio\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great lost novels of American working-class literature.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"610\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eFollowing a family as they move between mining camps, tenant farms and industrial towns during the Depression, Tillie Olsen captures poverty not as backdrop but as a total atmosphere, shaping language, memory and consciousness itself. Her prose moves effortlessly between realism and interior monologue, anticipating later writers while remaining unmistakably her own.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"612\" data-end=\"1060\"\u003eAlthough best known for \u003cem data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"654\"\u003eTell Me a Riddle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"669\"\u003eSilences\u003c\/em\u003e, Olsen's only novel has become a cult classic in its own right. Fiercely political yet deeply humane, it is a novel about labour, childhood, migration, women's lives and survival under capitalism, written with extraordinary formal invention and emotional precision. Essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American literature, feminist writing or working-class fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1087\" data-end=\"1220\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2004 University of Nebraska Press paperback with introduction by Linda Ray Pratt. A clean, well-kept copy with only light shelf wear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45791293800531,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-07-07T153445.485.png?v=1783402674","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/yonnondio-from-the-thirties-by-tillie-olsen","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}