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The next rodeo : new and selected essays / William Kittredge.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.I87 A6 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kittredge, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farm life.
- Ranch life.
- Manners and customs.
- West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
- West (U.S.).
- Oregon--Social life and customs.
- Oregon.
- Kittredge, William.
- Ranch life--Oregon.
- Farm life--Oregon.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- William Kittredge' s relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to the vast landscape that was once vital to his family' s trade. He has also witnessed, over many decades, the depletion of the West' s natural resources due to overuse. These luminous essays move effortlessly from the personal to the political. With grace and integrity, Kittredge directly confronts the myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and the love of the land. On the heels of Kittredge' s first novel, "The Willow Field," published to wide critical acclaim in 2006, we are pleased to offer the best of his nonfiction writings.
- Contents:
- Home
- Buckaroos
- Owning it all
- Who owns the west
- Leaving the ranch
- Reimagining Warner
- Redneck secrets
- Drinking and driving
- How to love this world
- White people in paradise
- Lost cowboys
- Bulletproof
- Death and a wedding
- The next rodeo.
- ISBN:
- 1555974791
- 9781555974794
- OCLC:
- 153578871
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