The World in the Attic

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 studyWright Morris, "InThe Inhabitants[a picture collection] the emphasis is on the artifacts inhabited and on the land; inThe Home Place[narrative and pictures], on the inhabitants themselves; and inThe 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 inThe Home Placeis further developed, although not entirely resolved, inThe 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 likeThe Home Place; but the second half has a novelist narrative line. InThe Home Place, the past, saturated in the immediate present, is merely alluded to. InThe World in the Attic, however, the past is specifically and dramatically related to the present."Morris, Wright is the author of 'The World in the Attic' with ISBN 9780803257290 and ISBN 0803257295.