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Lin McLean is a series of intertwined short stories that builds to a really nice finish. 
Lin is introduced as a free-spirited cow-boy who is moved by a sermon on the Prodigal Son returns home only to discover that he is not wanted (by his brother) but realizes that at least in his case this is no longer home for him. Being on the open range has profoundly changed him and as Owen Wister describes in the context of a death and subsequent funeral at miserable place called Dry Bone what is really means to live in the west and gives us insight into the how and why Lin McLean had been so molded…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Lin McLean is a series of intertwined short stories that builds to a really nice finish. 

Lin is introduced as a free-spirited cow-boy who is moved by a sermon on the Prodigal Son returns home only to discover that he is not wanted (by his brother) but realizes that at least in his case this is no longer home for him. Being on the open range has profoundly changed him and as Owen Wister describes in the context of a death and subsequent funeral at miserable place called Dry Bone what is really means to live in the west and gives us insight into the how and why Lin McLean had been so molded by his experiences in Wyoming. 

Interestingly the story also traces Lin moving from being basically a boy into a man with a conscience. As a boy he marries impetuously and later as a man learns the true meaning of love: 

Even though there were moments of joy 
and these sometimes so deep 
 
Autorenporträt
American author and historian Owen Wister, who lived from July 14, 1860, to July 21, 1938, is regarded as the "father" of Western fiction. His work on The Virginian and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant are most renowned. On July 14, 1860, Owen Wister was born in Germantown, a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the northwest. His father, affluent surgeon Owen Jones Wister, was raised in Grumblethorpe in Germantown. With the publication of The New Swiss Family Robinson, a spoof of the 1812 book The Swiss Family Robinson, Wister launched his literary career. It earned such positive reviews that Mark Twain wrote Wister a letter admiring it. Wister was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of The Franklin Inn Club, a member of numerous literary organizations, and a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers. Wister wed Mary Channing, his second cousin, in 1898. The couple have six kids together. Mary passed away in 1913 while giving birth. In 1933, Marina Wister, their daughter, wed the painter Andrew Dasburg. Wister died in 1938 at his Saunderstown, Rhode Island, residence. He is interred in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery.