His Family, by Ernest Poole
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At sixty, Roger Gale looks at how his family -- his three daughters in particular -- respond to the changing times. He sees a little bit of himself in each of them. This is the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize
His Family, by Ernest Poole- Amazon Sales Rank: #781332 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-02
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .69" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
About the Author Ernest Poole (1880 1950) was born in Chicago in 1880. After graduating from Princeton University he worked as a journalist and was a correspondent for "The Saturday Evening Post" in Europe and Russia during World War II. He is best known for his novel "The Harbor ("1915) but it was in 1918 that he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work "His Family.""
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful. The winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction. By Jerry Clyde Phillips Until coming across his name in a list of Pulitzer Prize winners for fiction, I had never heard of Ernest Poole. My curiosity was awaken and I added his Pulitzer novel to my reading list. I searched all the neigborhing libraries for a copy but was unsuccessful, so had to purchase a copy from an out-of-print book dealer advertised on ... I found that my resolve to read the novel, as well as the unexpected expense in securing a copy, was well worth the effort.The novel is set in New York City during 1913-15, just as war has erupted in Europe, and deals with the family of Roger Gale, a successful businessman. Gale is a widower who has raised, with varying success, three daughters. Each of the sisters is selfish: the eldest is overly concerned with her immediate family; the second is overly concerned with the social inequalities of the masses, and the youngest is overly concerned with pleasure and the accumulation of luxury; each is blind to anything that disturbs their own world view. The character of each of the three gives Poole full license to allegorize concerning the social ills of his day. The main conflict within the novel is that of the individual family contrasted against the human family, or the mass of immigrants that had recently transformed the City from urban gentility into a modern metropolis.The strenghts of the novel are Poole's character development and his use of dialogue. Each of the major characters in the book are honestly drawn and become alive in the pages of the book: each acts and speaks as would be expected. The major flaw is Poole's overly rhetorical ending (common in novels of this period) and his irritating verbatim repetition of the theme of the novel: "you will live on in our children's lives." The reader is forced to endure this thematic recapitulation at least two dozen times. It is as if the author feared that his readers would not "get" his message and wanted to be sure that they ruminated on the question of immortality.Although the book will appear to some contemporary readers as being "old fashioned" and dated in terms of technique and style, His Family offers an unique view into the life of an upper middle class family in the New York City of the early twentieth century. For anybody interested in the social history of America during one of its most dynamic periods, I would recommend this novel.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Lovely glimpse of the past By Shannon Byrd Poole's book tells the story of aging patriarch Roger Gale and the lives of his three daughters - Laura, with her reckless abandon and zest for life; Deborah, with her fierce devotion to the tenement schoolchildren she assists; and Edith, the mother of five whose entire world revolves around her children. Roger sees their lives change - some for the better, some worse - and how it affects his own life.This is a wonderful story which reminds me at times of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, in that it encompasses the scope of life in early twentieth century New York, and the lives of the people who inhabit it. The descriptions are vivid but never too cumbersome; the characters are all very real, and the plot flies by. By the end, I came to care about what happens to these people, and found I was sorry when it was over.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Changing Society Of The Early 1900s By Dave_42 "His Family" by Ernest Poole was published in 1917 and became the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1918. Though an interesting work, it falls short of his better known "The Harbor" which was published in 1915. The novel picks up on the story of Roger Gale in the later part of his life, well after his wife (Judith) had passed away, and it deals with Roger's relationships with his three daughters (Edith, Deborah, and Laura) as well as their relationships between each other and those important characters in their lives. Most of the novel is written from the viewpoint of Roger, although from time to time Poole switches perspective to someone else to give the reader a better understanding of their perspective.Poole uses this novel to comment on the changing society of the times in which it was written. The three daughters represent three different aspects of women. Edith is a woman who is a wife and mother, completely devoted to her family and children. Deborah is a woman who is focused on her career, even to the exclusion of having a family of her own. Laura is a woman who is focused on herself and her own needs. Together these aspects seem to represent the whole of Roger's deceased wife Judith, and their arguments and disagreements with each other may well represent the internal struggle that women have.The other key element to this story is the external forces and pressures which come to bear on the family. The illnesses, the tragic death of a loved one, the financial pressures, the Great War, and the social mores of the time all are factors which have an impact on this family. An interesting note with regards to the latter aspect is that the Pulitzer Prize for Drama was given out to the play "Why Marry?" (a.k.a. "And So They Were Married") by Jesse Lynch Williams which deals with much the same issue, though in a humorous way.As with "The Harbor", "His Family" would probably feel slow moving to today's readers. One key difference between the books is that in "His Family", Poole noticeably revisits the same themes in this one, which feels forced and gives it a repetitive feel at times. As a result, I can not give this as high of a rating as the previous work, and instead would put it just slightly above average. It is difficult to judge whether or not this work should have received the first Pulitzer, as I am not sure what other works would have been considered, but this is certainly a decent novel when one keeps in mind the era in which it was written.
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