The Sound of Mountain Water - Softcover

Stegner, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140266747 ISBN 13: 9780140266740

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

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

About this title

Review:

"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

About the Author:

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal), Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction includes The Sound of Mountain Water, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. Three of his short stories won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140266747
• ISBN 13: 9780140266740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288