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Chargement... The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essayspar William Kittredge
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Kittredge uses the essay form to explore his ideas about home, our place in the West, and his personal history. Essays like "Owning it All," "White People in Paradise," or his tribute to Raymond Carver "Bulletproof" are worth the price of the collection alone (and my rationale for rating). Yet, amid the nuance and detail Kittredge sees in his own life and other westerners there is a lot of repetition in the writing and read together it gets a bit tedious. I would say this is a problem with the format of selected essays rather than his writing but there is a stark contrast between the essays for the book and the essays that made it to publication but it's worth it to judge for yourself the merit of each. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. InThe Next Rodeo, the author's 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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