The Sound of Mountain Water

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.

Literature & Fiction

Stegner, Wallace Earle

Essays & Correspondence

DOUBLEDAY

The life of literary agent Joe Alston is interrupted by a postcard that takes him back twenty years to postwar Denmark where a search for his mother's heritage had led to the uncovering of Nazi horrors

The Spectator Bird

United States

A Well-written study of a footloose family...The life of the household is a misery of continual cruelty and often crushing poverty, alternating with occasional scenes of simple family happiness that stand out beautifully and unforgettably--quote from back cover.

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Literary

All the little live things

Heinemann

A passionate work about the fragile and arid West that Stegner loves

The American West As Living Space

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Univ of Michigan Pr

Late Harvest: Rural American Writing

The contributions of thirty-five important contemporary authors--including Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Garrison Keillor--highlight a superlative anthology that documents America's firm ties to its rural roots.

KEILLOR, Garrison

DILLARD, ANNIE

Berry, Wendell

Chute, Carolyn

Gass, William

Abbey, Edward

MASON, BOBBIE ANN.

Reference

Smithmark Pub.

Mormon country

Hawthorn Books

Wolf Willow

History

Americas

Univ of Nebraska Pr

All the Little Live Things

Contemporary

Mormon Country

Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret," a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Illinois and Missouri, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land they settled, the Mormons' habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed to the often prodigal individualism of the West, Mormons lived in closely knit—some say ironclad—communities. The story of Mormon country is one of self-sacrifice and labor spent in the search for an ideal in the most forbidding territory of the American West.

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