Often compared to other American greats: Steinbeck's "Grapes of
Wrath" and Caldwell's "Tobacco Road", John Sinclair's timeless tale
comes from a wellspring of personal experience and captures a
unique portrait of the individualism that makes up our nation's
proud history. "In Time of Harvest" is flavoured by an earthy
wisdom and a sense of humour that could come only from someone like
John Sinclair, who as a cowboy in the twenties and thirties lived
on the New Mexico prairie and who knew intimately the homesteaders
he portrays in this timeless and unforgettable novel. Rustic
heroism in the face of tragedy, surprising comedy, and vivid
storytelling make "In Time of Harvest" a classic. Much like the now
90 year old author himself, the novel tells the story of people
caught up in the American dream which was realised in the great
south-west. The McClung clan sets out in 1919 to travel by mule
from Oklahoma to the New Mexico territories. In a one-room shack on
the wild prairie, the goal is deceptively simple: raise both beans
and a family. Neither proves to be an easy task. "In Time of
Harvest" tells the story of Tod McClung and his family, who arrived
from Oklahoma with a team of mules in 1919, having travelled 'seven
hundred miles to reach one square mile ...we can call our own'.
Sinclair himself worked in the Estnacia Valley in the 1920s and
1930s as a cowboy on ranches bordering the farms of 'nesters' like
the McClungs. With compassion, humour, and his considerable
storytelling gifts, Sinclair weaves a fascinating tragi-comic
history of the McClungs and their neighbours, recounting their
story in the distinctive country idiom of that place and time.
Written in prose as rich and earthy as the land and people it so
vividly portrays, this classic novel of the Southwest is about the
McClungs, a family of homesteaders raising beans and themselves in
the southern New Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s. In an introduction,
Frank Waters, Sinclair's long-time friend, speaks of Sinclair's
craftsmanship and inborn artistry, and his unsentimental yet
sympathetic treatment of his characters, who embody a 'crude
realism, an earthy, unconventional response to every hardship'.
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