We have all gone away / by Curtis Harnack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harnack, Curtis, 1927-

Series:

Bur Oak Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Farm life--Iowa.

Farm life.

Iowa--Social life and customs.

Iowa.

Harnack, Curtis, 1927---Childhood and youth.

Harnack, Curtis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st University of Iowa Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

"A Bur Oak book."

ISBN:

1-58729-970-4

OCLC:

740479666