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A Critical Edition of Josephine Lawrence's Years are So Long (1934): A Novelistic Portrayal of Adult Children with Their Elderly Parents During the American Great Depression Critical Edition
Author(s): Josephine Lawrence (Author), Carmela Pinto McIntire
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2011
- Edition: Critical ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773425969
- ISBN-13: 9780773425965
Book Description
This novel depicts an elderly couple dependent on their five adult children for care and support. Though the discussion of social security and forms of old-age insurance were topics of debate through the early years of the 20th century, that debate gathered force with the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. Lawrence’s novels emphasized individual responsibility and an implicit political conservatism.
