The Golden Bowl (Manfred novel)

Manfred insisted on this title, which is identical to Henry James' better known novel, even when his friend Sinclair Lewis argued against it.

Grant becomes a reluctant hired hand at the Thor family farm in southwestern South Dakota, leaving them in despair of the hopelessness of their situation, returning a few weeks later and, Manfred implies, remaining.

He grew up on an Iowa farm, then after graduating from college, he struck out to see the country, hoboing west to Yellowstone and back.

The Golden Bowl has been in and out of print repeatedly, including a fiftieth-anniversary edition by the South Dakota Humanities Center.

Robert C. Wright, Frederick Manfred (Twayne's United States Authors series; TUSAS 336)