Life in the 1930s and '40s on the small family farms in eastern
Iowa was threadbare and tough. It was made endurable by the web of
humanity spun by the men and women who built their lives there. The
land itself seemed indifferent to its relentless exploitation and
yet people, towns, farms and landscape endured in some fashion. The
best parts of the farm stayed with Richard Willis when he left,
while the rest is long gone. "Long Gone is a perfect title for this
remarkable memoir that strips away any fantasy of an idyllic life
"in the country" and shows the passions, backbreaking labor and
violence of the hard won life lived on an American farm in the
middle of the twentieth century. But "long gone " can also be
applied to the writing of Richard Willis. The extraordinary scenes
he paints and characters he evokes are indeed very rare to find in
this century." Patty Dann, Mermaids,
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