by Louis Bromfield · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426421661
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«La señora Parkington» is the novel by Louis Bromfield, published by LUMEN in hardcover (432 pages, in Spanish).
Susie Parkington, an eighty-four-year-old woman, prepares for Christmas dinner in her Manhattan mansion in the years after the 1929 crash. While children and grandchildren, bored or ruined by bad investments, wait impatiently for the inheritance, she remains firmly in charge of the family. The novel portrays the intrigues of Wall Street and the struggle of a strong woman to preserve the sense of honest work in a corrupt world.
Originally published in 1942 as «Mrs Parkington»; this Spanish edition includes a translation by Antonio Valencia.
Recommended for readers of classic fiction and period novels interested in family portraits and social criticism.
Louis Bromfield was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.
