AMERICAN PLACES (PORTER, ELIOT)

PORTER, ELIOT.;. STEGNER, ELIOT & PAGE & (MACRAE, JOHN III ED)

ISBN 10: 0517641321 / ISBN 13: 9780517641323

Edité par Greenwich Pub/Crown, New York, 1987

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VERY GOOD Condition CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT ; GOLD TITLES ON DARK BROWN CLOTH HARDCOVERS.SHOWING 8X6 COLOR PHOTO OF RED ROCK RIDGE IN GRAND CAYON Pasted to front cover, as issued. gold isbn stamped to bottom back cover. White text papers & endpapers. NOTE date is 1987; 224pg pages; Nice combination of the Stegners' EXTENSIVE text and Porter's photography. "The third view from our ridge is just as full of intimations that might interest Carl Jung". Stegner talking about Crow Country, near his boyhood home.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: AMERICAN PLACES (PORTER, ELIOT)
• Éditeur: Greenwich Pub/Crown, New York
• Date de parution: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0517641321
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780517641323
• Reliure: HARDCOVER
• Illustrateur: Illustrated by Porter,eliot Photographs
• Édition: First Edition?; hgfedcba print line.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Book by Eliot Porter

Biographie de l'auteur

Wallace Stegner was born in 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. The son of Scandinavian immigrants, he traveled with his parents and brother all over the West-to North Dakota, Washington, Saskatchewan, Montana, and Wyoming-before settling in Salt Lake City in 1921. Many of the landscapes he encountered in his peripatetic youth figure largely in his work, as do characters based on his stern father and athletic, outgoing brother. Stegner received most of his education in Utah, graduating from the University in 1930. He furthered his education at the University of Iowa, where he received a master's and a doctoral degree. He married Mary Stuart Page in 1934, and for the next decade the couple followed Wallace's teaching career-to the University of Wisconsin, Harvard, and eventually to Stanford University, where he founded the creative writing program, and where he was to remain until his retirement in 1971. A number of his creative writing students have become some of today's most well respected writers, including Wendell Berry, Thomas McGuane, Raymond Carver, Edward Abbey, Robert Stone, and Larry McMurty.

Throughout his career and after, Stegner's literary output was tremendous. His first novel, Remembering Laughter, was published in 1937. By the time of his death in 1993 he had published some two dozen works of fiction, history, biography, and essays. Among his many literary prizes are the Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971) and the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird (1976). His collection of essays, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs (1992), was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award.

Although his fiction deals with many universal themes, Stegner is primarily recognized as a writer of the American West. Much of his literature deals with debunking myths of the West as a romantic country of heroes on horseback, and his passion for the terrain and its inhabitants have earned him the title 'The Dean of Western Letters'. He was one of the few true Men of Letters in this generation. An historian, essayist, short story writer and novelist, as well as a leading environmental writer. Although always connected in people's minds with the West, he had a long association with New England. Many short stories and one of his most successful novels, Crossing to Safety, are set in Vermont, where he had a summer home for many years. Another novel, The Spectator Bird, takes place in Denmark.

An early environmentalist, he actively championed the region's preservation and was instrumental-with his now-famous 'Wilderness Letter'-in the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Honest and straightforward, educated yet unpretentious, cantankerous yet compassionate, Wallace Stegner was an enormous presence in the American literary landscape, a man who wrote and lived with ferocity, energy, and integrity.

Page Stegner is a Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.