The Rise of Jonas Olsen : A Norwegian Immigrant's Saga

The Rise of Jonas Olsen is at once an immigrant novel, business novel, political novel, and a western, offering a rich and panoramic view of Scandinavian immigrant life in the Upper Midwest. Johannes B. Wist combines realism and satire to depict the role Norwegian Americans played in the economic, p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wist, Johannes B.
Other Authors: Overland, Orm
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Norwegians.
Norwegians > United States > Fiction.
United States.
Fiction.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The Rise of Jonas Olsen is at once an immigrant novel, business novel, political novel, and a western, offering a rich and panoramic view of Scandinavian immigrant life in the Upper Midwest. Johannes B. Wist combines realism and satire to depict the role Norwegian Americans played in the economic, political, and cultural life of the Upper Midwest.
Physical Description:1 online resource (464 pages).
ISBN:9780816698172

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