{"product_id":"the-sound-of-mountain-water-isbn-9780525435433","title":"The Sound of Mountain Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eA book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation.\" —\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Mountain Water \u003c\/i\u003eencompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Compositions delve into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West--from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada--into the modern age. Other works feature eloquent sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as Robbers Roost and Glen Canyon. A final section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past and the diminished present, and analyzesd the difficulties facing any contemporary Western writer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and by a writer and thinker who will always hold a unique position in modern American letters, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Mountain Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a hymn to the Western landscape, an affirmation of the hope emobided therein, and a careful and rich investigation of the West's complex legacy.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1  Overture: The Sound of Mountain Water\u003cbr\u003e2  The Rediscovery of America: 1946\u003cbr\u003e3  Packhorse Paradise\u003cbr\u003e4  Navajo Rodeo\u003cbr\u003e5  San Juan and Glen Canyon\u003cbr\u003e6  Glen Canyon Submersus\u003cbr\u003e7  The Land of Enchantment\u003cbr\u003e8  Coda:  Wilderness Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1  At Home in the Fields of the Lord\u003cbr\u003e2  Born a Square\u003cbr\u003e3  History, Myth,a nd the Western Writer\u003cbr\u003e4  On the Writing of History\u003cbr\u003e5  Three Samples:\u003cbr\u003e    a The West Synthetic:  Bret Harte\u003cbr\u003e    b The West Authentic:  Willa Cather\u003cbr\u003e    c The West Emphatic:  Bernard DeVoto\u003cbr\u003e6  The Book and the Great Community\"Stegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eLike 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.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Weekly Standard \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Stegner pleads for a Western literature that will meaningfully link past and present. Easygoing essays by a writer of venerable and popular reputation.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003eWallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, \u003ci\u003eRemembering Laughter,\u003c\/i\u003e 1937; \u003ci\u003eThe Big Rock Candy Mountain, \u003c\/i\u003e1943; \u003ci\u003eJoe Hill,\u003c\/i\u003e 1950; \u003ci\u003eAll the Little Live Things,\u003c\/i\u003e 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); \u003ci\u003eA Shooting Star,\u003c\/i\u003e 1961; \u003ci\u003eAngle of Repose,\u003c\/i\u003e 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator Bird,\u003c\/i\u003e 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); \u003ci\u003eRecapitulation,\u003c\/i\u003e 1979; and \u003ci\u003eCrossing to Safety,\u003c\/i\u003e 1987. His nonfiction includes \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Hundredth Meridian,\u003c\/i\u003e 1954; \u003ci\u003eWolf Willow,\u003c\/i\u003e 1963; \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Mountain Water\u003c\/i\u003e (essays), 1969; \u003ci\u003eThe Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto,\u003c\/i\u003e 1974; and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West \u003c\/i\u003e(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 \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1990.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304391561445,"sku":"NP9780525435433","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780525435433.jpg?v=1767741601","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-sound-of-mountain-water-isbn-9780525435433","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}