| Edition |
1st University of Iowa Press ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (188 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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 & rsquo;s impressions with the knowledge of an adult looking back to produce what Publishers Weekly called & ldquo;a country plum of a book, written with genuine affection and vivid recall. & rdquo; In a community related by blood and harvest, rural life could be bountiful even when hard economic times threatened. The adults urged ch. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Harnack, Curtis, 1927-2013 -- Childhood and youth.
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Harnack, Curtis, 1927-2013. |
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Harnack, Curtis, 1927-2013 -- Childhood and youth. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Farm life -- Iowa.
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Farm life. |
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Iowa. |
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Iowa -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harnack, Curtis, 1927- We have all gone away. 1st University of Iowa Press ed. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011 9781587299698 (DLC) 2011002349 (OCoLC)698451549 |
| ISBN |
9781587299704 (electronic book) |
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1587299704 (electronic book) |
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9781587299698 |
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1587299690 |
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