The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West

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ISBN-10: 0525435433
ISBN-13: 9780525435433
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 08/08/2017
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.20" W, 0.80" H

The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West

byWallace Stegner

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The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner emerged as an important conservationist and novelist. This collection is divided into two sections: the first features eloquent sketches of the West

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"Stegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation." –Choice

"Like Faulkner, Stegner sired a stable of writers fired with an ambition to chronicle the region and force upon the nation a new and 'demythologized" view of the West." –The Weekly Standard

"Stegner pleads for a Western literature that will meaningfully link past and present. Easygoing essays by a writer of venerable and popular reputation." –Kirkus Reviews

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Details

ISBN-10: 0525435433
ISBN-13: 9780525435433
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 08/08/2017
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.20" W, 0.80" H
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