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The Home Place
Dorothy Thomas
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Description for The Home Place
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 178 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
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.
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 become and ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803282520
SKU
V9780803282520
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99-1
About Dorothy Thomas
Born in 1910 in Central City, Nebraska, Wright Morris wrote thirty-three books, including Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. He died in 1998. John Hollander, Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, is a poet, critic, and the author of many books including The Gazer’s Spirit.
Reviews for The Home Place
"A Nebraska classic."—Saul Bellow "That Wright Morris in his photographs seems to produce an indecent invasion of the privacy of his text is a tribute to his accurate and selective descriptive powers."—New York Times "A pathbreaking and still unique example of the integration of photographs and narrative text."—Alan Trachtenberg "An extremely able photographer and a first-rate writer."—San Francisco Chronicle "A ... Read more