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We Have All Gone Away by Curtis Harnack (2011, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of Iowa Press

ISBN-101587299690

ISBN-139781587299698

eBay Product ID (ePID)2930079

Product Key Features

Book TitleWe Have All Gone Away

Number of Pages188 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Literary, American / General, Sociology / Rural

Publication Year2011

GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorCurtis Harnack

Book SeriesBur Oak Book Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-002349

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"In the pure zest and detail of Mr. Harnack's descriptions, one can feel the solidity, the deep satisfactions, of life on that Iowa farm."--Anatole Broyard, New York Times, @font-face { font-family: "Palatino"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } "His nostalgia is proud and peaceful."-Jean Stafford, Washington Post Book World , "In the pure zest and detail of Mr. Harnack's descriptions, one can feel the solidity, the deep satisfactions, of life on that Iowa farm."--Anatole Broyard, New York Times , @font-face { font-family: "Palatino"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } "These reminiscences of a childhood on an Iowa farm are exceptionally good, their artistry and honesty shaping each chapter to make the reader an elegant gift of the author's experience. . . . The book teems with fully realized characters, some likeable, some affecting, and at least one purely hilarious."-New Yorker

Dewey Decimal813/.54 B

SynopsisIn "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 times threatened. The adults urged children to become educated and to keep an eye on tomorrow. We were all taught to lean enthusiastically into the future, Harnack recalls, which would likely be elsewhere, in distant cities. At the same time, the children were cultivating a resiliency that would serve them well in the unknown world of the second half of the twentieth century.Inevitably, the Midwest s small, diversified family farm gave way to large-scale agriculture, which soon changed the former intimate way of life. Our generation, using the mulched dead matter of agrarian life like projectile fuel for our thrust into the future, became part of that enormous vitality springing out of rural America, notes Harnack. Both funny and elegiac, "We Have All Gone Away" is a masterful memoir of the joys and sorrows of Iowa farm life at mid-century, a world now gone by way of learning, wars, and marriage but still a lasting part of America s heritage.", 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 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 times threatened. The adults urged children to become educated and to keep an eye on tomorrow. "We were all taught to lean enthusiastically into the future," Harnack recalls, which would likely be elsewhere, in distant cities. At the same time, the children were cultivating a resiliency that would serve them well in the unknown world of the second half of the twentieth century. Inevitably, the Midwest's small, diversified family farm gave way to large-scale agriculture, which soon changed the former intimate way of life. "Our generation, using the mulched dead matter of agrarian life like projectile fuel for our thrust into the future, became part of that enormous vitality springing out of rural America," notes Harnack. Both funny and elegiac, We Have All Gone Away is a masterful memoir of the joys and sorrows of Iowa farm life at mid-century, a world now gone "by way of learning, wars, and marriage" but still a lasting part of America's heritage.

LC Classification NumberE302.6.F8F844 2011