A critical edition of Josephine Lawrence's Years are so long (1934) a novelistic portrayal of adult children with their elderly parents during the American Great Depression - Lawrence, Josephine (Edwin Mellen Press, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references
This critical edition is the first to examine and return to print, a glimpse of the relationship between adult children and their elderly parents in Depression-era America. Years Are So Long presents the difficulties of both parents and grown children with equal dispassion, judging neither parents nor children as they cope with painful circumstances. Yet, without alluding to contemporary debate on the care for the elderly, Years Are So Long makes the terms of that debate painfully vivid for the reader
Keywords: Lawrence, Josephine -- 1897?-1978 -- Years are so long; Geschichte 1900-2000; Literature; Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; FICTION / General; Geschichte; Literatur; Adult children -- Family relationships -- Fiction; Depressions -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction