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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819582403321

Autore

Morris Wright <1910-1998, >

Titolo

Wright Morris territory : a treasury of work / / Wright Morris ; edited by David Madden with Alicia Christensen ; biographical sketch by Joseph J. Wydeven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln ; ; London : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-280-54777-4

0-8032-3804-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

813.52

Soggetti

Short stories, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; The Home Place; Note on Photographs; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to ""the home place"" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called ""as near to a new fiction form as you could get."" Both prose and pictures are homely: worn linoleum, an old man's shoes, well-used kitchen utensils, and weathered siding. Muncy's journey of discovery takes the measure of the man he has bec