ELIOT PORTER : American Places

Eliot Porter (Photography); Stegner, Wallace; Stegner, Page; (John Macrae, III, Editor)

ISBN 10: 0517413612 / ISBN 13: 9780517413616

Edité par Greenwich House/Distributed By Crown Publishers, New York, NY, 1993

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Text/BRAND NEW. Sienna-brown linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price-slipped, else fine. Gift inscription to front endpaper. A study of how the American people and the American land have interacted. The story is told through photographs (89 plates) of Eliot Poter (1901 - 1990) and the prose of Wallace Earle Stegner (1909 - 1993), author of The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) and Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize), and his writer, novelist, and historian son Page Stegner (1937 -). The chapters and photographs can be construed as "illustrating a stage in the process of adaptation and naturalization). Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 13 are written by Wallace Stegner; chapters 9-12 are by Page Stegner. Chapter 14 is jointly written by father and son.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: ELIOT PORTER : American Places
• Éditeur: Greenwich House/Distributed By Crown Publishers, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0517413612
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780517413616
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Eliot Porter (Photographer)
• Édition: First Edition, 3rd Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Photography/Photographic Essays
  • Narratives/Essays/Prose
  • History

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Synopsis

New York, Greenwich House 1983, cm.28x31, pp.224, 89 tavv.a col.nt. leg.ed. sopraccop.fig.a col.

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.