The Home Place

by Wright Morris, John Hollander (Introduction)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803283961
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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 superb and . . . revolutionary wedding of prose and pictures, a kind of new art form." —Omaha World-Herald

Omaha World-Herald

"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 Nebraska classic."—Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

"An extremely able photographer and a first-rate writer."—San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle