This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind - Couverture souple

Doig, Ivan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156899825 ISBN 13 : 9780156899826

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1980

Synopsis

This House of Sky This haunting, magnificently written memoir introduced an important American writer. Now, in its Fifteenth Anniversary Edition, Ivan Doig's preface provides stirring details of the making of this memorable book. Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged, elemental Montana wilderness with his father, Charlie, and his grandmother, Bessie Ringer. His life was formed among the sheepherders and characters of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. Doig's prose resonates as much with the harshness and beauty of the Montana landscape as it does with those moments in memory that determine our lives. What Doig deciphers from his past wi...

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West

 

Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family. A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is at once especially American and universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0156899825
• ISBN 13: 9780156899826
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336