The Sound of Mountain Water The Changing American West Wallace Stegner
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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.
The Sound of Mountain Water The Changing American West Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner is an icon of Western American literature. And these essays on the American West and its role in the making of America, and the larger world, are a must read. We now live in an era where we are seeing his warnings about overdeveloping Western America are beginning to bear fruit. From land use, to water to the encroachment into our wide open spaces, Stegner was prescient. These essays are a must read for anyone who cares about our wild lands.Product details
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The Sound of Mountain Water The Changing American West Wallace Stegner Reviews
This book contains a series of essays about the American west spanning (generally) the post WWII years through the late 1960s.
Stegner's fiction and non-fiction are closely tied to the western U.S.and he is an excellent chronicler of multiple facets. The history, the terrain, the literatire, the fundamental physical aspects (beginning and ending with water) that separate the west from the rest of the country, and the character of the people who settle and thrive there all comprise Stenger's analysis of what the west means. As a midwestern (and later, mid Atlantic) kid, I was first exposed to the west during visits to Arizona when my grandparents retired there. This is the the west encompassing the latter years in this collection.
When I read his accounts of back-country primitive camping (and self-repair of vehicles that were not purpose-designed to go off-road...that definitely were driven off-road!), when I think about the growth of some parts of Arizona (especially Phoenix) and a time when air conditioning and franchise foods established have taken the edge off of western travel, I wonder what Stegner would think about the 21st century American west.
Whether you live in the west, travel to the west (or plan to do either), this is great reading about formative aspects of a magical part of the country.
Just received today and am only on Chapter 2. I like the author's descriptive passages about mountain water which I originally read on an interpretive sign in Banff, Aiberta on a recent vacation. Book arrived well-packaged except for some inexplicable boid black lines through the text on some pages.
Excellent service, excellent book.
It's a Stenger compilation --- what more can i say?
A perfect book to take camping. Sit by the water and read under a tree. The rhythm of the language will enhance your experience.
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Stegner's series of short essays trap the essence of what it means to live and write in the West like lightning in a bottle. The "west" he lived in and wrote for was roughly the area west of the 100th meridian where dry-land farming is problematic to the western edge of the Great Basin. (California and Oregon didn't really count as "western" to Stegner; they were "west of the west," as in the title of Mark Arax' book which, as an aside, is well-worth reading.)
I own a hardbound edition of this book. The paperback was a gift for a friend and intended as a short-cut for writing him a "Wallace Stegner Writer's Workshop Reading List." Essentially all the works that Stegner used as reference material in his creative writing classes at Stanford appear in Mountain Water. But the book contexts those reference materials in the landscape of Western American writing in ways that make sense to me despite their mix-and-match of genres that both defies and defines truly "western" writers.
Wallace Stegner is an icon of Western American literature. And these essays on the American West and its role in the making of America, and the larger world, are a must read. We now live in an era where we are seeing his warnings about overdeveloping Western America are beginning to bear fruit. From land use, to water to the encroachment into our wide open spaces, Stegner was prescient. These essays are a must read for anyone who cares about our wild lands.
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