Leaving the Land
Douglas Unger
Leaving the Land won the Robert F. Kennedy Award and was an ALA Notable book in 1984. The reputation of Leaving the Land has grown steadily since its first publication in 1984.
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- U of Nebraska Press
- Year
- 1995
- ISBN-13
- 9780803295605
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Rural life and farming declineFamily and identityEconomic hardship
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1985)
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