The Sound of Mountain Water
By Wallace Stegner
By Wallace Stegner
By Wallace Stegner
By Wallace Stegner
Category: Science & Technology | Essays & Literary Collections
Category: Science & Technology | Essays & Literary Collections
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$19.00
Aug 08, 2017 | ISBN 9780525435433
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Feb 18, 2015 | ISBN 9781101911709
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Praise
“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
Table Of Contents
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
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