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Happy Land

MacKinlay Kantor

出版	Coward-McCann, 1943
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Tb5EAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Happy Land is the story of a typical Iowa country town and a typical family (the Marshes), their joys, disappointments and sorrows. The plot has drugstore operator Ameche bereaved over the loss of his son, killed in naval action. Return of Gramp, his father, dead for some 25 years in the form of an apparition, is the device used to unfold the principal story up until Richard Crane is killed in service. The explanation of the visionary appearance is that Gramp has returned to set Ameche right, since the grief-stricken father claims that Crane never really lived -- never had a home of his own, had not married, etc. The flashback method then traces the life of the youngster from birth.