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The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
A work of Non-fiction by Wallace Stegner
Subgenres:
- American West,
- Nature Writing,
- Essay Collection
This book is for you if you're into...
- Essays blending memoir, conservation, and Western history
- Reflections on the postwar transformation of Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada
- Literary deep dives into the myths and realities of Western writing
A book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner.
The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in The Sound of Mountain Water encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature.
Compositions delve into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West--from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada--into the modern age.
Other works feature eloquent sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as Robbers Roost and Glen Canyon.
A final section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past and the diminished present, and analyzes the difficulties facing any contemporary Western writer.
Written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and by a writer and thinker who will always hold a unique position in modern American letters, The Sound of Mountain Water is a hymn to the Western landscape, an affirmation of the hope embodied therein, and a careful and rich investigation of the West's complex legacy.
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Crossing to Safety
1987
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