The Store (Library Alabama Classics), by Thomas S. Stribling
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The Store (Library Alabama Classics), by Thomas S. Stribling
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The Pulitzer prize-winning The Store is the second novel of Stribling’s monumental trilogy set in the author’s native Tennessee Valley region of north Alabama. The action begins in 1884, the year in which Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War; and it centers about the emergence of a figure of wealth in the city of Florence.In The Store, Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters. In the New Yorker, reviewer Robert M. Coates compared Stribling with Mark Twain in his ability to convey the “very life and movement” of a small Southern town: “Groups move chatting under the trees or stand loitering in the courthouse square, townsfolk gather at political ‘speakings’ and drift homeward separately afterward; always, in their doings, one has the sense of a whole community surrounding them, binding them together.” Gerald Bullet wrote in The New Statesman and Nation that the novel “is a first-rate book…filled with diverse and vital characters; and much of it cannot be read without that primitive excitement, that eagerness to know what comes next, which is, after all, the triumph of the good story teller.”
The Store (Library Alabama Classics), by Thomas S. Stribling- Amazon Sales Rank: #965491 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-02
- Released on: 2015-03-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Randy K. Cross is on the English faculty at John C. Calhoun State College in Decatur, Alabama.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. The Store By VeritasSemper This book is a great read! The writing style is fluid and Stribling's story-telling is superb. The only negative: the Univ. of Alabama Press edition contains some typos and the print quality could be a bit better. However, the quality of Stribling's writing more than makes up for these deficiencies.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful. One Part of an Excellent Series By AgnesMack The Store is the 2nd book in the T.S. Stribling Vaiden series. I've already reviewed the first book, The Forge, and most everything I have to say about this book was summed up in that review. The rating has been raised, as a result of the fact that I'm currently about 1,500 pages into the series and am nowhere near ready for it to be over. That's saying something.One thing that was different in this book was that there was a new fat character, and apparently her entirely personality was that of 'fat'. Seriously, he actually wrote :"I don't know," she called back flabbily, "I might want something to eat."How exactly does a person speak 'flabbily'?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A good immersive read, though not without its faults. By Elizabeth F. I read the Forge two years ago, and really liked it. I had meant to read the Store sooner after that, but for various reasons did not do so until now. The Store takes place about 20 years after the Forge, and I did not quite like it as much. It focuses primarily on one of the characters from the Forge, though it still includes others.Its still a good read, particularly in expressing the dichotomy of black and white viewpoints of situations and behaviors, particularly the failure of white characters to understand the rational behavior of black characters. I like the setting, 1884 Alabama, which I knew absolutely nothing about before reading the book. The change of seasons, political events, range of characters, provide a very immersive read.I have to remove a star because I don't think its particularly good literature. I think the plot is a little contrived, and some of the characters are not well drawn. Someone else mentioned, Ponny, whose character is only in being "fat". She was more well-drawn in the Forge. In particular, the author's belief in the occult, which was a small element in the Forge, is much more prominent in the Store. I do mean the author's belief, as well as some of the characters in the book, the belief that the dead can find ways to talk to people from beyond the grave, can reveal things they might not even have known when alive. This was a popular thing in the 1910s, 20s, 30s when this book was written. I noticed it also in Booth Tarkington's the Magnificent Ambersons, where he kind of screws up the ending with a bizarre occult twist. This same element in The Store devalues the plot which is otherwise pure historical fiction. Two characters in particular are driven by this true occult obsession/connection throughout the book, not just in one little spot as with the Forge.Someone might ask, why did this book get the Pulitzer and not the Forge. The Pulitzers prizes for fiction often miss the mark. Most of the best fiction from this era are not Pulitzer prizes, and most of the Pulitzers are forgotten for good reason. For example, the same year the Store was published, A Light in August (Faulkner) and The Thin Man (Hammett) were published. In addition, Pulitzers were often given to established authors AFTER they had written their best work. For example, they gave a Pulitzer for Arrowsmith after Sinclair Lewis had already won a Nobel Prize for his other books Main Street and Babbitt. (He refused to accept the prize.) They gave one to Hemingway for a book published 30 years after his best fiction was published, and for a terrible book by Willa Cather, 5 years after My Antonia was published. If you are looking for good literature, don't read the Pulitzers. There are many other good lists to go by.However, I would still recommend reading The Forge, and the Store, for the experience of the setting, the events, the viewpoints. I do intend to finish the trilogy and read the Unfinished Cathedral, and I hope that this silly mystical element does not take on an even bigger role.If you have not read the Forge, I think you can still read the Store as a stand alone novel. I had forgotten many of the details of the Forge, and I still found the Store to be readable. However, I think it would be better to read the Forge first, since I think it may be a better book, and because many of the characters are influenced by events of the past which are described in the Forge. The author himself was born in Tennessee. His father's family fought for the North, his mother's Alabama family fought for the South. The Catlins and Vaidens represent those families. So I think The Forge is a great place to start the saga.
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