Let the Hurricane Roar (Harper Trophy Book)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 118 pages
• Published by: Harper Trophy September 1985
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0064401588
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0064401586
• Book Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Weighs: 3.4 ounces

Product Description
Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they head west.But they work hard, and at first their new life is full of promise, especially after a baby is born. Then disaster strikes and David must journey to find work, leaving Molly to face the prairie winter alone, in this gripping novel by the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder.



Reader Reviews
R.W. Lane was a writer LONG before her mother ever picked up a pencil. While The previous reviewers found Let the Hurricane Roar to be very similar to the LIW books, there is a reason. R.W. Lane based her novel on her grandparents' experiences in homesteading. (It's not surprising, then, for people to find similarities....) What is surprising to most people is the fact that the Little House Series was virtually unpublishable in its original form -- until Ms. Lane edited her mother's very basic manuscripts, giving them style, flow and poise. Her own career ended up suffering terribly from this devotion to her mother. I found Hurricane to be vastly superior to the LIW books (which should rightly be credited to RWLane, as well); the content, pacing and structure were far better developed, as were the characterizations. Brilliant depiction of the trials of homesteading on the plains.