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Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, "Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs" gathers together Wallace Stegner's most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With subjects ranging from the writer's own "migrant childhood" to the need to protect what remains of the great western wilderness (which Stegner dubs "the geography of hope") to poignant profiles of western writers such as John Steinbeck and Norman Maclean, this collection is a riveting testament to the power of place. At the same time it communicates vividly the sensibility and range of this most gifted of American writers, historians, and environmentalists.
"No one has written more or better about the West, past and present, than Wallace Stegner."--USA Today
| Biographical Note | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Personal | |
| Finding the Place: A Migrant Childhood | p. 3 |
| Letter, Much Too Late | p. 22 |
| Crossing into Eden | p. 34 |
| Habitat | |
| Thoughts in a Dry Land | p. 45 |
| Living Dry | p. 57 |
| Striking the Rock | p. 76 |
| Variations on a Theme by Crevecoeur | p. 99 |
| A Capsule History of Conservation | p. 117 |
| Witnesses | |
| Coming of Age: The End of the Beginning | p. 135 |
| On Steinbeck's Story "Flight" | p. 143 |
| George R. Stewart and the American Land | p. 155 |
| Walter Clark's Frontier | p. 172 |
| Haunted by Waters: Norman Maclean | p. 190 |
| The Sense of Place | p. 199 |
| A Letter to Wendell Berry | p. 207 |
| The Law of Nature and the Dream of Man: Ruminations on the Art of Fiction | p. 214 |
| Afterword | p. 229 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780375759321
ISBN-10: 0375759328
Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 9th April 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 20.1 x 13.3
x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.28
Edition Number: 1
Edition Type: New edition
