![]() Its jacket design hints at this, being a warped, multicolored image of corn, as if having been taken from an old, deteriorating VHS tape. The mystery of the story stays within the bounds of the Iowa corn that surrounds its characters. ![]() The Mountain Goats singer-songwriter creates a story that quietly echoes across generations, dealing in loss, grief and the attempts to project normalcy that follow such things. “A few rows of corn will muffle the human voice so effectively that, even a few insignificant rows away, all is silence,” writes John Darnielle in his second novel Universal Harvester, a follow up to his debut, Wolf in White Van. ![]() ![]() Title: Universal Harvester Author: John Darnielle Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication Date: FebruRating: ![]()
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