A quick shifting montage of emotions, characters, incidents,
situations, conversations, as a small family comes from New York to
Lone Tree, the husband's birthplace in Nebraska. Clyde is caught up
in the family's crosscurrents, his wife interested only in living
and not caring where it is, the children causing confusion by their
ignorance of country life. It is through the discussions of the
Croppers and the Mineys, the tracing of family history and gossip,
the meetings with relatives long unseen, the recalled incidents of
childhood that the pattern of a family's life is worked out, the
character of a family developed. The text will be illustrated with
a photograph facing each page so that the day that encompasses the
story will have a pictorial accompaniment. This should make it of a
more specialized nature than as straight fiction and heighten the
quality of farm and family life, and provide a somewhat
experimental venture. (Kirkus Reviews)
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.
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