We have all gone away [[electronic resource] /] / by Curtis Harnack

• Autore: Harnack Curtis <1927->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st University of Iowa Press ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54; B
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 20th century; Farm life - Iowa
• Soggetto geografico: Iowa Social life and customs
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: We have all gone away
• ISBN: 1-58729-970-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781325003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bur Oak Book