num_pages: 189
description: 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."
language: English
title: The World in the Attic
titlecomplete: The World in the Attic
ratings_count: 9
publisher: University of Nebraska Press