Unless the wind turns / Mildred Walker ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Deirdre McNamer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Mildred, 1905-1998, author.

Contributor:

McNamer, Deirdre, writer of introduction.

University of Nebraska Press, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Camping--Montana--Fiction.

Camping.

Forest fires--Montana--Fiction.

Forest fires.

Montana--Fiction.

Montana.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 235 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Summary:

John Davis has a "dull aching sense of missing out, of not getting anywhere." There must be millions like him, he thinks. His relations with his wife, Serena, are shallow and unsatisfying. In the late 1930s, he tries to rekindle their marriage by bringing her to a special place from his past--the Montana mountains. He is chagrined when she asks other people to join them on the camping trip. Plans are further disrupted by a catastrophe--a forest fire that rages uncontrolled for three days. Forced to reach outward to others in this crisis, the members of the party ultimately have to face themselves as well. Unless the Wind Turns is fast-moving and psychologically nuanced.

Notes:

"First Bison Books printing: 1996"--Verso of title leaf.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

0803297815

9780803297814

OCLC:

34150811

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