Bibliograph

American places, Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner ; with a new preface by Page Stegner

Type

Label

American places, Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner ; with a new preface by Page Stegner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American places

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

70628988

Responsibility statement

Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner ; with a new preface by Page Stegner

Series statement

Penguin Classics

Summary

"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminations about the making of Americans. Again the theme is Frost's:'The land was ours before we were the land's.' We are the unfinished product of a long becoming. In our ignorance and hunger and rapacity, in our dream of a better material life, we laid waste the continent and diminished ourselves before any substantial mumber of us began to feel, little and late, an affinity with it, a dependence on it, an obligation toward it as the indispensable source of everything we hope for."--American Places

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