Wallace Stegner

The Sound of Mountain Water (eBook, ePUB)

The Changing American West

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A book of timeless importance about the American West by a National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The essays collected in this volume encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Delving into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West-from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada-into the modern age, Stegner's essays explore the essence of the American soul. Writtten over a period of thirty-five years by a writer and thinker who will always hold a unique position in modern American letters, The Sound of Mountain Water is a modern American classic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101911709
• Artikelnr.: 42368142

Autorenporträt

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I
1  Overture: The Sound of Mountain Water
2  The Rediscovery of America: 1946
3  Packhorse Paradise
4  Navajo Rodeo
5  San Juan and Glen Canyon
6  Glen Canyon Submersus
7  The Land of Enchantment
8  Coda:  Wilderness Letter
Part II
1  At Home in the Fields of the Lord
2  Born a Square
3  History, Myth,a nd the Western Writer
4  On the Writing of History
5  Three Samples:
    a The West Synthetic:  Bret Harte
    b The West Authentic:  Willa Cather
    c The West Emphatic:  Bernard DeVoto
6  The Book and the Great Community