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Sound of Mountain Water Paperback - 1997
by Stegner, Wallace
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- Title Sound of Mountain Water
- Author Stegner, Wallace
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later printing
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0140266747I5N00
- ISBN 9780140266740
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Summary
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's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as San Juan and Glen Canyon; the concluding section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past versus the diminished present, and analyzes the difficulties facing any contemporary Western writer. The Sound of Mountain Water is both a hymn to the Western landscape, an affirmation of the hope embodied therein, and a careful investigation of the West's cultural and natural legacy.
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I discovered mountain rivers late, for I was a prairie child, and knew only flatland and dryland until we toured the Yellowstone country in 1920, loaded with all the camp beds, auto tents, grub-boxes, and auxiliary water and gas cans that 1920 thought necessary.