The Fork River Space Project (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The late 1970’s
- Setting: Just over the Nebraska border, near the Kansas border
- Principal Characters: Kelcey, Alice, Harry Lorbeer, O. P. Dahlberg
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s
- Locales: Kansas
The Novel
With the action of the novel narrated by Kelcey, the work is basically the story of his intellectual growth as a result of his contact with the two men who live near the Fork River Space Project, Harry Lorbeer and O. P. Dahlberg. The novel, then, is about a new way of seeing, which Kelcey adeptly explains in the first lines of the novel: “I owe this [new awareness] to Harry Lorbeer. He started me thinking—or should I say seeing?” Yet this novel is not merely the story of how one man teaches another man to understand life more clearly.
As the novel opens,...
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