The World in the Attic (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)

A continuation of Clyde Muncy's travels backwards into time, begun in The Home Place (1948), as he, his wife, son and daughter move on from Lone Tree to Junction, Nebraska, where he again sees, through adult eyes, the places and people so well remembered. What is left and what has gone, the contrast of the changes against memory's images - all these have their impact as does his stay with his old friend, Bud, and his wife. With them he catches up on all the old and new news, relives the feud between Miss Caddy and Aunt Angie, visits the latter and is forced to take an active part when Miss Caddy dies in her sleep. Through the step by step of the funeral arrangements, he pieces together old gossip and stories, the pattern of a small town's life. His absorption is pierced by his wife and children's comments, their hard pressed ability to adjust to this type of life, their harried defense of life in the city...and it is Aunt Angie's recognition of the end of the feud that sends them on their way. A great deal of every day humor, a feeling of factual- basis fiction, this expands the pattern begun in the earlier book, and should be of special interest to that market. (Kirkus Reviews)

Wright Morris's "Nebraska Trilogy" (1946-49) embodies his attempt to capture and come to terms with his past. According to David Madden, in his study Wright Morris, "In The Inhabitants a picture collection] the emphasis is on the artifacts inhabited and on the land; in The Home Place narrative and pictures], on the inhabitants themselves; and in The World in the Attic, on what the land and the people signify to one man, Clyde Muncy, writer and self-exiled Nebraskan. . . . What was only suggested to Muncy in The Home Place is further developed, although not entirely resolved, in The World in the Attic. . . . In it], Morris achieves the kind of objective conceptualization that is characteristic of his best novels. The first half of the book is impressionistic, a series of reminiscences like The Home Place; but the second half has a novelist narrative line. In The Home Place, the past, saturated in the immediate present, is merely alluded to. In The World in the Attic, however, the past is specifically and dramatically related to the present." One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1971
First published:	March 1971
Authors:	Wright Morris
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	189
Edition:	2 Rev Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-5729-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8032-5729-5
Barcode:	9780803257290

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