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Ross Lockridge Jr.

Born

in Bloomington, Indiana, The United States

April 25, 1914

Died

March 06, 1948

Website

http://www.raintreecounty.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Ross F. Lockridge, James Joyce, Walt Whitman ...more

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Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr., (April 25, 1914 – March 6, 1948) was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is noted for Raintree County (1948), a widely praised novel which many readers and critics considered a contender for the "Great American Novel," and for his death by suicide just as it was reaching the top of the best-seller lists. ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 1,104 ratings · 106 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Raintree County 3.99 avg rating — 1,101 ratings — published 1948 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raintree County Part A by Ross Lockridge Jr., Lloyd James (Narrator) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Story of Indiana 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Raintree County (Rediscovered Classics) by Lockridge Jr., Ross(September 1, 2007) Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Ross Lockridge Jr. (?)

“Hard roads and wide will run through Raintree County. You will hunt it on the map, and it won't be there.”
― Ross Lockridge Jr., Raintree County

tags: mystical

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“Did they stop to think, in the midst of their gaiety and laughter, that they were passing burial places and battlegrounds of vanished peoples? Did they think that the winding river was the highway of extinct races, whose skimming light canoes did cleave the same waters in centuries long ago? Did these maidens in wide bonnets, these lads in straw skimmers and bowties, dream of aught but innocent love and beauty and desire as they drifted on languid oars down waters of youth and summertime! Ah! let us behold them this brief while, floating on the classic river of Raintree County, with all their gushing joys in their bloom...”
― Ross Lockridge Jr., Raintree County

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“We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.”
― Ross Lockridge, Jr., Raintree County

tags: love, sorrow

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Polls

2017 4th Quarter Long Read

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1859

45 votes, 14.8%

The Arabian Nights, 1049 pages, 800

41 votes, 13.4%

East of Eden by John Steinbeck. 601 pages, 1952

38 votes, 12.5%

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, 973 pages, 1989

22 votes, 7.2%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 608 pages, 1830

21 votes, 6.9%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages, 1847

19 votes, 6.2%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 909 pages, 1353

16 votes, 5.2%

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, 1168 pages, 1957

16 votes, 5.2%

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, 1079 pages, 1966

15 votes, 4.9%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1182 pages, 1008

13 votes, 4.3%

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, 801 pages, 1865

12 votes, 3.9%

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 975 pages, 1749

10 votes, 3.3%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 661 pages, 1946

9 votes, 3.0%

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, 1474 pages, 1993

8 votes, 2.6%

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, 640 pages, 1964

8 votes, 2.6%

Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo, 1424 pages, 1978

6 votes, 2.0%

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, 896 pages, 1971

4 votes, 1.3%

Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr., 1088 pages, 1948

2 votes, 0.7%

305 total votes

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