Modern Library Classics Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West, (Paperback)

from tloeffler

This is a collection of essays by Wallace Stegner, centered around growing up and living in the West, and discussions on some "Western" writers. I like Stegner's writing style, and I will read more of his books. But I had a difficult time with this book. I know essays are supposed to be based on ...

from kohsamui

"But if every American is several people, and one of them is or would like to be a placed person, another is the opposite, the displaced person, cousin not to Thoreau but to Daniel Boone, dreamer not of Walden Ponds but of far horizons, traveler not in Concord but in wild unsettled places, explor...

from Donna828

These essays about the west and the people who write about it are as varied as the western geography. I was particularly taken by the ones that gave some of the author's personal history. The book's title is borrowed from the song, "The Big Rock Candy Mountains," which also describes the "arrogan...

from bell7

This collection of essays brings together sixteen essays, primarily published in the 1980s and 1990s, on Stegner's reflections of "living and writing in the West" as the subtitle expresses it. The first grouping includes personal reflections on Stegner's life growing up, the second reflect on the...

from nemoman

This is a beautifully written collection of essays that contain Stegners reflections on his craft, other writers and a landscape that he and I both love. Stegner is the Dean of Western American literature and mentored numerous other famous writers through the creative writing program at Stanford....