Excerpt from Adventures in Reading: Ninth Series The two prize - winning novels of 1936 are both regional, al though as disparate in mood as in the sections which they describe. It is a long way spiritually as well as in miles from the Maine coast of Time Out of Mind, which won the award of the American Book sellers' Association for the most distinguished novel of 1936, to the Oregon of H olney in the H orn, yet both are authentically American. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.