The Swedish tailor and adventurer : a historical novel / Rolf Johansson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9789151955827
- ISBN: 9151955822
- Physical Description: 458 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: Third edition
- Publisher: Stockholm : Proenter, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published with the Swedish title Skräddare och Äventyrare. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- 1. Hardships on the farm of Lerbäckshult -- 2. Alfred - a tailor apprentice in Helsingborg -- 3. Martin - a recruit in the Army service -- 4. The break-up and preparations for emigration -- 5. The trip to America -- 6. Getting established in Chicago -- 7. The train journey from Chicago to Seattle -- 8. Life in Seattle -- 9. The brothers' travel to Nome and return to Seattle -- 10. Alfred's winter visit to Nome -- 11. Rosalie in Washington, Connecticut -- 12. Experiences in Aberdeen -- 13. Alfred's escape -- 14. Rosalie's breakups -- 15. Life as a tailor in Evanston -- 16. Alfred's return -- 17. Finding each other in Sweden -- Epilogue -- Timeline -- Where the adventurers came from -- Where the adventurers stayed in the USA. |
Summary, etc.: | "Alfred is only five years old when his father dies in 1890. His mother inherits the lonely and difficult task of managing their little farm in Skåne, in the southern part of Sweden. After finishing school, Alfred is trained to be a tailor in the city of Helsingborg. At the end of his apprenticeship, he is attracted by what he hears about greater opportunities in America. In 1903 Alfred convinces his brother Martin to leave the safety of Sweden for thrilling experiences and alluring places in America. Alfred is faced with dramatic turmoil in Chicago's ethnic melting pot, he searches for gold in the Alaskan arctic and witnesses the murderous wild west coast. At the same time, Rosalie lives a much calmer and refined life as a housemaid in Connecticut. She has emigrated from a poor croft, close to where Alfred grew up, to become familiar with the environment around well-off families in New England. The Swedish Tailor and Adventurer is a historical novel, based on true events and facts. The fates of these young emigrants, Alfred and Rosalie, whose lives eternally intersect, are portrayed in a century that was young and optimistic." -- Back cover. |
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Subject: | Tailors > Sweden > Fiction. Immigrants > Sweden > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. United States > 20th century > Fiction. United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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