The listing, The Sunlit Field by Lucy Kennedy has ended.
Publisher: Crown Publishers, N.Y.; 1950.
Hardcover. 5 3/4" - 8"; 333 pages .
Most likely a first edition.
Condition: Previous library book with plastic-protected dust jacket and library card attached to first end paper.
DISCARD stamped on inside front cover and on first end paper.
Book is tight with no loose, torn, missing or dog-eared pages.
Synopsis:
This wonderful novel about the golden days when America was just coming of age has the most enchanting heroine years —Po (for Pocahontas) O'Reilly. She was only 16 in 1857 when she stowed away on the Red Tanager bound for Brooklyn. Her dad had told her when they left Ireland for the new world that America was "a fabulous place—like a great open sunlit field sparkling wet with dew, unused, unspent, still with the early morning shine upon it." Fall River hadn't been like that at all. But Brooklyn—ah, maybe!
Another stowaway on the Red Tanager was Larry Wainwright "he with the great swinging stride upon him, and with the look of size and wildness." It was natural for them to join forces, and when they landed on the shore of Long Island, they looked across America, hopeful and infinitely eager.
And sure enough the first things they encountered in Brooklyn was a brigh sunny field where men were playing a game called base, and all in the great crowd watching them were excited, joyous, care-free. "Ah!" thought Pb, "there's no darkness or trouble or worry here. This is it!" But Po was mistaken. There was trouble and despair, too. Life was not at all simple and easy, she realized after the first break with Larry. "I have to grow up" she said and THE SUNLIT FIELD is the shining, glowing story of how Po and Larry, Brooklyn and baseball, and America itself all struggled to grow up with their hopes and dreams.