01615cam a2200265 4500 214730372 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 880927t19891926||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780803259164 paperback $8.95 0803259166 paperback $8.95 TxAuBib Aldrich, Bess Streeter, 1881-1954. The Cutters / by Bess Streeter Aldrich. ©1926. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1989. 275 pages ; 21 cm. "A Bison book.". All unhappy families are alike, to invert Tolstoy, but each happy family is happy in its own way. Although they live in a rambling white house in a midwestern town called Meadows, the Cutters are too irreducibly real to stand in for the average all-American family created by pollsters, popular magazines, and television sitcoms. They compete for the reader's attention, pursuing happiness in human ways that have not changed since 1926, when The Cutters was first published. But it is Nell Cutter who best illustrates Bess Streeter Aldrich's strength in drawing memorable characters. Whether she is decorating the house on a budget for wealthy guests or testing child-raising theories or trying to make the daily loaf a little more yeasty, Nell Cutter is not afraid to ex-periment. She may go out on a limb, but it is seldom a dead one. 19940314. Western Fiction. Nebraska author. Historical fiction. Classic fiction.