Memories of an Ia Farm Boy-94-Ihc

by H. E. Wilkinson and H.E. Wilkinson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813828139
• ISBN13: 9780813828138
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Iowa State Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Poignant and pleasingly artless yet literary

This is a neat book, telling of the author's life on and off an Iowa farm from his birth on Sept 22, 1892, till he finished college in 1917. I was surprised how I was moved by it, tho he is a generation before me. Some of the farming practices he describes (such as threshing from stacks) I only heard about, but others were not too different from when I was a boy in a different part of Iowa. Any one who grew up on a farm or has rural roots will be affected by this book, maybe not as powerfully as was I but it is a very pleasant book to read. The author's few poems (which were published in papers at times) are in the book, and they while not great poetry have a charm which surprises. This volume is a worthy component of Iowa State University Press' Iowa Heritage Collection.

Mesmorizing, miraculous, and 'mazin

Wilkinson's book was beyound astounding, it was magnificent! The book went beyond normal standards and it reached a higher level of apexes. This book should not only be read in every classroom throughout the U.S., but it should be momrized, analyzed, and loved, because it is truly worth all of that. Wilkinson truly knows how to write and for that, everyone should at least read a chapter.