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The Attic: A Memoir
Contributor(s): Harnack, Curtis (Author)
ISBN: 1587295466     ISBN-13: 9781587295461
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2011002350
Series: Bur Oak Books
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Geographic Orientation - Iowa
- Cultural Region - Heartland
- Cultural Region - Upper Midwest
 
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Publisher Description:

In "The Attic," his sequel to the classic "We Have All Gone Away," Curtis Harnack returns to his rural Iowa homeplace to sift through an attic full of the trash and treasures left behind by the thirteen children in two generations who grew up in the big farmhouse. The adult Harnack had been making pilgrimages to his past from various parts of the country for thirty-plus years; now the death of an uncle and the disposal of an estate bring him home once more. The resonant diaries, church bulletins, photos, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia in the attic allow him to rediscover both personal and universal truths as he explores the enduring legacies of home, family, and community. Finally, discovering a cache of letters written home while he was in the Navy in the mid 1940s, he confronts a stranger his younger self. Harnack s dream-pod journey . . . from who I am now to how it once was for me tells the life story of a close-knit family and extends this story to our own journeys through our own memory-filled attics."