The Third Life of Per Smevik This touchingly humorous novel concerns a young man who leaves his home and country to make a new life for himself in America As he adjusts to a new language and new customs he also goes from boyhood
This touchingly humorous novel concerns a young man who leaves his home and country to make a new life for himself in America As he adjusts to a new language and new customs, he also goes from boyhood to manhood and acquires a rare understanding of himself and others Per Smevik is an astute observer and sensitive reporter of life in America at the turn of the century, ofThis touchingly humorous novel concerns a young man who leaves his home and country to make a new life for himself in America As he adjusts to a new language and new customs, he also goes from boyhood to manhood and acquires a rare understanding of himself and others Per Smevik is an astute observer and sensitive reporter of life in America at the turn of the century, of the immigrant s experience, and, in the memorable story of his third life, of the tragicomical aspects of every man s life.
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Ole Edvart R lvaag was born in the family s cottage in a small fishing village on the island of D nna, in the far southern district of Nordland county, Norway D nna, one of the largest islands on the northern coast of Norway, is situated about five miles from the Arctic Circle He was born with the name Ole Edvart Pedersen, one of seven children of Peder Benjamin Jakobsen and Ellerine Pedersdatter Vaag The settlement where he was born had no official name, but was referred to as R lvaag, the name of a narrow bay on the northwestern point of the island where the fishermen kept their boats At 14 years of age R lvaag joined his father and brothers in the Lofoten fishing grounds R lvaag lived there until he was 20 years of age, and the impressions he received during the days of his childhood and his young manhood endured with him throughout his life 2 An uncle who had emigrated to America sent him a ticket in the summer of 1896, and he traveled to Union County, South Dakota to work as a farmhand He settled in Elk Point, South Dakota, working as a farmhand until 1898 With the help of his pastor, R lvaag enrolled in Augustana Academy in Canton, South Dakota where he graduated in 1901 He earned a bachelor s degree from St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1905, and a master s degree from the same institution in 1910 He also had studied for some time at the University of Oslo.