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The Blossom Festival by Coates, Lawrence
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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Blossom Festival
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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The Blossom Festival chronicles rural life in the Santa Clara Valley during the decades leading up to World War II. Against the lush backdrop of millions of fruit trees unfold the personal dramas of a fascinating cast of characters. This leisurely read explores the complex relationships between parents and children in the context of a rich California region bent on replacing agriculture with computer chips to become Silicon Valley.
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Publisher
University of Nevada Press
ISBN-10
087417337x
ISBN-13
9780874173376
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038690689
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blossom Festival
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
Up
Lc Classification Number
Ps3553.O153b58 1999
Reviews
California's Santa Clara Valley has become known as Silicon Valley, a transformation that debut novelist Coates implicitly contrasts by setting his tale in the orchard-strewn, pastoral community during the years between the two world wars. The plot meanders across decades and weaves many family sagas together. Harold Madison was abandoned by his father as a child, and he in turn abandons his girlfriend, Betsy Moreberg, when she becomes pregnant. Betsy is forced to give up her son, Peter, but 11 years later reunites with him. Peter's story soon meshes with that of classmates Albin and Olivia Roberts, and with Fumiko Yamamoto, the nisei daughter of an immigrant Japanese family. Their lives colorfully described, these Valley-dwellers cherish their cherry and pear orchards, bake scrumptious homemade pies and don't 'spare the rod' in child-rearing. The last few chapters depict the 'blossom festival' of the title, as townsfolk gather for the event that was observed annually between 1900 and 1941. This celebration of spring, featuring sack races, children's pageants, pseudo-freak shows, barbecued rabbit and kite-flying contests, is destined to be one of the last, though the characters don't know that. Especially poignant are the scenes tracing Fumiko and her family's attempts to assimilate, as readers foresee the WWII internment camps that await them. Meanwhile, Coates describes the bigotry Fumiko suffers as her friends try to sneak her into the festival and protect her from racist thugs. Two tender love stories develop . . . indicating the hope each spring brings. This quietly old-fashioned novel occasionally stumbles on its nostalgic reverie, but its essence is bittersweet: that even a paradisical land is marked by the human hopes and hatreds that reverberate long after the orchards are replaced by corporate parks."" --Publishers Weekly ""The locale and its corresponding history are well researched. Coates' writing is reminiscent of the naturalism style of well-known Chicago author James T. Farrell in his Studs Lonigan stories of the early 1930s. This true-to-life tale and its well-drawn characters linger long after the book has been read."" --Foreword Magazine ""An extraordinary first novel."" --Contra Costa Times ""Lawrence Coates' fondness for the orchard country of central California in the years before World War Two brings to mind John Steinbeck and William Saroyan. His novel emerges from that same world, the fertile fields, the crossroads culture, where immigrant families collide and intermingle as they strive to claim some piece of the legendary western terrain. The Blossom Festival is an old American story made new. Coates knows the soil of Santa Clara Valley, he knows its history, and his tale shines a haunting light on the world we all inhabit now."" --James D. Houston ""Lawrence Coates' debut novel is full of luminous moments and quiet, true epiphanies. The Blossom Festival introduces a writer you will want to follow."" --Teresa Jordan ""Lawrence Coates' The Blossom Festival is a poignant, between-World-Wars mapping of a more Edenic Santa Clara Valley in northern California when the mechanistic intrusions in the garden still whistled and honked of promise and progress, sang of youth and love and spring, harvest of family and festival."" --Robert F. Gish, California's Santa Clara Valley has become known as Silicon Valley, a transformation that debut novelist Coates implicitly contrasts by setting his tale in the orchard-strewn, pastoral community during the years between the two world wars. The plot meanders across decades and weaves many family sagas together. Harold Madison was abandoned by his father as a child, and he in turn abandons his girlfriend, Betsy Moreberg, when she becomes pregnant. Betsy is forced to give up her son, Peter, but 11 years later reunites with him. Peter's story soon meshes with that of classmates Albin and Olivia Roberts, and with Fumiko Yamamoto, the nisei daughter of an immigrant Japanese family. Their lives colorfully described, these Valley-dwellers cherish their cherry and pear orchards, bake scrumptious homemade pies and don't 'spare the rod' in child-rearing. The last few chapters depict the 'blossom festival' of the title, as townsfolk gather for the event that was observed annually between 1900 and 1941. This celebration of spring, featuring sack races, children's pageants, pseudo-freak shows, barbecued rabbit and kite-flying contests, is destined to be one of the last, though the characters don't know that. Especially poignant are the scenes tracing Fumiko and her family's attempts to assimilate, as readers foresee the WWII internment camps that await them. Meanwhile, Coates describes the bigotry Fumiko suffers as her friends try to sneak her into the festival and protect her from racist thugs. Two tender love stories develop . . . indicating the hope each spring brings. This quietly old-fashioned novel occasionally stumbles on its nostalgic reverie, but its essence is bittersweet: that even a paradisical land is marked by the human hopes and hatreds that reverberate long after the orchards are replaced by corporate parks."" -Publishers Weekly ""The locale and its corresponding history are well researched. Coates' writing is reminiscent of the naturalism style of well-known Chicago author James T. Farrell in his Studs Lonigan stories of the early 1930s. This true-to-life tale and its well-drawn characters linger long after the book has been read."" -Foreword Magazine ""An extraordinary first novel."" -Contra Costa Times ""Lawrence Coates' fondness for the orchard country of central California in the years before World War Two brings to mind John Steinbeck and William Saroyan. His novel emerges from that same world, the fertile fields, the crossroads culture, where immigrant families collide and intermingle as they strive to claim some piece of the legendary western terrain. The Blossom Festival is an old American story made new. Coates knows the soil of Santa Clara Valley, he knows its history, and his tale shines a haunting light on the world we all inhabit now."" -James D. Houston ""Lawrence Coates' debut novel is full of luminous moments and quiet, true epiphanies. The Blossom Festival introduces a writer you will want to follow."" -Teresa Jordan ""Lawrence Coates' The Blossom Festival is a poignant, between-World-Wars mapping of a more Edenic Santa Clara Valley in northern California when the mechanistic intrusions in the garden still whistled and honked of promise and progress, sang of youth and love and spring, harvest of family and festival."" -Robert F. Gish
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
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Lccn
99-025314
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Series
Western Literature and Fiction Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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