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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829135003321

Autore

Harnack Curtis <1927->

Titolo

We have all gone away / / by Curtis Harnack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011

ISBN

1-58729-970-4

Edizione

[1st University of Iowa Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Bur Oak Book

Disciplina

813/.54

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Farm life - Iowa

Iowa Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bur Oak book."

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. The Return; 2.The Barns; 3. Queen of Hearts; 4. Rooms of the House; 5. The Milky Way; 6. The Eighty; 7. Barney; 8. Bringing in the Sheaves; 9. Father, Forgive Them; 10. Next of Kin; 11. These Mothers; 12. Away

Sommario/riassunto

In We Have All Gone Away, his emotionally moving memoir, Curtis Harnack tells of growing up during the Great Depression on an Iowa farm among six siblings and an extended family of relatives. With a directness and a beauty that recall Thoreau, Harnack balances a child's impressions with the knowledge of an adult looking back to produce what Publishers Weekly called "a country plum of a book, written with genuine affection and vivid recall."  In a community related by blood and harvest, rural life could be bountiful even when hard economic ti