Description: "Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC"--Title page verso.
Review Quotes: "The fact that The Trees is not a historical novel does not preclude its historical importance, but the reader's first interest is in [the] hardy, illiterate pioneer family. By relating the story and presenting the scene consistently from their point of view, the author achieves a unity and tightness that both strengthen and simplify the novel. Whatever the wider interest and significance of the book, the author is content to keep it entirely fiction and resists all temptation to press Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone into the story. He needs no such proper nouns to persuade us of the veracity of his portrait: we close the book convinced that this is how the woodsmen in the great forests of the Northwest Territory really lived." --R. A. Cordell, Saturday Review of Literature