Michael Tidemann writes from Estherville, Ia. "Universal Harvester" skirts the genre of metafiction, with two first-person narrators emerging – one the author/narrator, who offers alternative plot twists throughout the novel and mentions the two years he lived in Colo, and the other Lisa Sample at the end. James finally locates Jeremy, who ominously tells him, “Don’t take this personally but all this stuff is none of your business.”īy the end of the novel, we learn about loss, but not the sort of loss we may have expected. (UHI) offers an extensive line of world-class quality fertilizers, available at very reasonable prices. Then the story jumps several years into the future when James Pratt, son of James and Emily who bought the farm once belonging to Lisa, follows clues from videos discovered in the trunk of an old Oldsmobile on the farm. Irene’s husband, Peter, and Lisa mount a hopeless search for her. One is a backstory of how Lisa’s mother, Irene Sample, comes under the control of a religious cult leader in Council Bluffs and later disappears. Kindle 9.99 Rate this book Universal Harvester John Darnielle 3.22 16,060 ratings2,798 reviews Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. Darnielle weaves two other strands into his dark noir.
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