The Home Place

by JohnHollander (Introduction), WrightMorris (Author)

New
Paperback
1999
$22.80

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 of what he has left behind.

Synopsis

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 of what he has left behind.

$22.80

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 178
Edition: New edition
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 01 Jun 1999
ISBN 10: 0803282524
ISBN 13: 9780803282520
Book Overview: Wright Morris's other books include Field of Vision.

Media Reviews

A Nebraska classic. -Saul Bellow -- 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 * New York Times *
A pathbreaking and still unique example of the integration of photographs and narrative text. -Alan Trachtenberg -- Alan Trachtenberg
An extremely able photographer and a first-rate writer. -San Francisco Chronicle * San Francisco Chronicle *
A fine piece of Americana. -Library Journal * Library Journal *
A superb and . . . revolutionary wedding of prose and pictures, a kind of new art form. -Omaha World-Herald * Omaha World-Herald *

Author Bio

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.