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 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