Author: Brace, Gerald Warner
Title: The Garretson Chronicle
Description: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948, 1st UK edition. Cloth, G. 316pp, foxed, a solid reading copy. Booksellers ticket of Goodmans, Lusaka to the pastedown. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ American fiction concerning three generations of a Massachusetts family. The book is a satire on the decline of Emersonain New England. The hero of the novel is a young boy who has never been content with his job as the village carpenter and is always searching for roots and a sense of accomplishment. This novel was promoted for the Pulitzer Prize in 1948.

Keywords: american fiction