Pioneer, Go Home!

Pioneer, Go Home!

â€œSurely one of the funniest books ever published!â€
â€” Richmond Times-Dispatch

â€œOne of the most affable tales of liberty without license that has appeared since You Canâ€™t Take It With You. ... a fine, knockabout extravaganza. ... Mr. Powell achieves the impossible on occasion. The impossible, that is, in stimulating our willing sense of disbelief. ... An awesome feat.â€
â€”The New York Times

The novel that might have been called â€œ Piney, Go Home!â€ delivers a fast-paced story, a terrific cast of characters, and dozens of memorable, laugh-out-loud moments. This 50th anniversary edition restores Richard Powellâ€™s New York Times bestseller and includes a previously unpublished preface by the author.

Pioneer, Go Home! ranks among the most entertaining of Powellâ€™s 19 published novels. Originally released by Scribnerâ€™s in 1959, it was the immediate follow-up to the authorâ€™s best-known novel, The Philadelphian. Like its predecessor, â€œPioneerâ€ received rave reviews, spent weeks on the bestseller lists, and was made into a popular movie (1962â€™s â€œFollow That Dreamâ€ starring Elvis Presley). The similarities end there, for with the new novel Powell chose satirical comedy over high dramaâ€”with frequently sidesplitting results.

Pioneer, Go Home! is a warm and witty tale of little man versus â€œBig Gummint.â€ Powell relates the adventures of the Kwimpersâ€”a motley clan of New Jersey Pineys who break down on the side of a southern highway project and decide to claim squatterâ€™s rights. Call them â€œhicksâ€ or â€œbumpkinsâ€ if you like, but these Kwimpers are considerably more resourceful than most folks give them credit forâ€”and ten times as stubborn! When the government orders them to vacate, Pop Kwimper gets his dander up and the die is cast. Hilarity ensues as the family defends its homestead against an onslaught of conniving bureaucrats, Mother Nature, and the mob.

You canâ€™t help but cheer for the heroic Kwimpers as they thumb their noses at the authorities, struggle to get a business going, stand up to gun-happy gamblers, and tangle with a foxy social worker over custody of twins Eddy and Teddy. Meantime, young Toby Kwimper and the familyâ€™s endlessly resourceful â€œbabysitter,â€ Holly Jones, find the time to fall in loveâ€”though it takes Toby some time to realize that Holly is â€œreal growed up.â€ Fish and fishing are recurring themes in many of Richard Powellâ€™s novels, and thereâ€™s plenty of both to go around in Pioneer, Go Home!

â€œThe book has laughs from the first page right on through to the end.â€
â€”San Antonio Express News

â€œPowell brings to the humorous novel something that is often lacking in all too many â€˜funnyâ€™ storiesâ€”a few good belly laughs. ... Long live the Kwimpers!â€
â€” New Orleans Times Picayune
Country USA
Manufacturer Plexus Publishing, Inc.
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2008-12-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Plexus Publishing, Inc.
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2008-12-30
Format	Kindle eBook

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