My WorksWe Have All Gone Away
"These reminiscenses 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 likable, some affecting and at least one purely hilarious." --The New Yorker "Captures forever the vital juices of a vanished time...a quiet, deeply moving book." --The Los Angeles Times The Attic: A Memoir
The death of an uncle and the necessity of closing the century-old Iowa farmhouse brings the author to the crowded attic of his childhood home, where he encounters letters, diaries, journals, newspapers, church bulletins, photographs, and other memorabilia. "Curtis Harnack is Iowa's Willa Cather." --Ned Rorem
Ruth Suckow Award, the Library of Congress Center for the Book Gentlemen on the Prairie
A history of the 19th century upperclass British, who tried to establish on the Iowa frontier a colony of like-minded gentlemen and their ladies. "Through the experience of these picturesque emigrants he allows us to see afresh the fear, danger, courage and appalling hard work that went into the settling of our western lands." --The New York Times Book Review "A fascinating piece of Americana and American history." --"Morning Edition," National Public Radio The Work of an Ancient Hand
A portrait of a rural Iowa community in the mid-twentieth century, this novel portrays the intimate, secret lives of people who seldom reveal themselves. Love & Be Silent
The illusions of love and the realities of marriage are portrayed in the lives of a rural Midwestern brother and sister. "With great skill, and with infinite care, Mr. Harnack contrasts the solidity and stolidity of Robert's marriage with the uncertainty and the continuing sense of romance that Alma cherishes in her choice." --The New Yorker "It is tender, touching, true-to-life, suffused with a good sense of place and tellingly colloquial... A moving chronicle of mid-Western America." --Kirkus Reviews "American writing at its finest, a prime work of fiction." --The St. Louis Post Dispatch Limits of the Land
"Limits of the Land evokes in lyrical detail the lonely world of Middle Western family farms... Mr. Harnack clearly loves the prairie he depicts so unsparingly, and conveys that even to the most citified reader a vision of its enduring power to hold men and women to itself." --The New York Times Book Review "A strong voice that speaks authentically of the nature of the bond between land and people and of the tenuous relationships between individuals." --Booklist |
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