Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Powers
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Rural or country life, 1910’s, Immigration or emigration, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, World War I, Photography or photographers, Modernism
- Locales: United States
In the first chapter of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, the first-person narrator happens upon a haunting August Sander photograph in the Detroit Institute of Arts while passing some hours between trains. The photograph captures three youthful peasants resplendent in weekend finery. The picture, bearing the same title as Powers's book, is dated 1914. Given that date, the narrator reads his own meaning into the title: The dance these rural Americans are destined for is World War I.
The first narrative frame of the novel recounts the narrator's search for basic...
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