Sons of Adam Author:Frederick Manfred The novel is an engrossing story of two young men, both raised on a farm, whose lives become intertwined in the big city. Ultimately one, a reporter, tries to track down the other, a pigsticker in a stockyard and part-time boxer, who disappears when he is accused of murder. Manfred recreates the vigorous, teeming, incident-filled life of a time ... more »and place that should not be lost-growing up on a midwestern farm, arriving wide-eyed in the big city, seeing rural and urban living conditions, a newpaper's operations, a stockyard's routine, labor problems, family life, sexual mores, the academic scene, the tenderness of young love, and the seeds of change that would create an unrecognizable new world.
Manfred's development as a writer resembles the growth of a well-planted tree--beautiful in its infancy in its lovely surroundings, more impressive as it grows and sends out a sturdy branch in this direction and another in that, and awe-inspiring as it majestically reaches its maturity.« less