A Man Without Shoes
Author | : John Sanford |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2013-09-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781448213252 |
ISBN-13 | : 1448213258 |
Rating | : 4/5 (258 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Man Without Shoes written by John Sanford and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written between 1943 and 1946, A Man Without Shoes – an epic novel of the immigrant experience in America – was finally self-published in 1951 after over 30 rejections. As Sanford explained 'in 1947, it was a new kind of cold altogether: McCarthyism, it was called, and hard weather was no longer on the way, -it was here. For A Man Without Shoes, the sixteen seasons of the next four years were all of them winter. During that period, the book was submitted to some thirty publishers, and thirty-some times it was declined.' The novel was considered too politically radical and leftist for the mainstream publishers at the dawn of the McCarthy era.