Our Daily Bread (New Canadian library ; no. 114)

Our Daily Bread works out the tragic story of John Elliot, a turn-of-the-century prairie patriarch, struggling withe elements of fate and nature. Caught in a clash between the generations, Elliot's most precious vision fades as his family breaks up and the growth of commerce and exhaustion of the soil alter the basic fibre of prairie existence.An honest picture of Canadian prairie life a generation ago, a picture drawn with sincerity and authenticity, the annals of a family, impressive by reason of the very simplicity of the telling and powerful in its portrayal of personality in its relation to environment.