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The Sound of Mountain Water : The Changing American West
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The Sound of Mountain Water : The Changing American West Paperback - 2017

by Stegner, Wallace

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Written over a 25-year period, during a time when the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, the essays, memoirs, letters and speeches contained in "The Sound of Mountain Water" established Wallace Stegner's reputation as an important conservationist and novelist.

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title The Sound of Mountain Water : The Changing American West
  • Author Stegner, Wallace
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Date 2017-08-08
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18043855-6
  • ISBN 9780525435433 / 0525435433
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.), West (U.S.) - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 80065190
  • Dewey Decimal Code 978.033

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About the author

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.