Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner's most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With subjects ranging from the writer's own "migrant childhood" to the need to protect what remains of the great western wilderness (which Stegner dubs "the geography of hope") to poignant profiles of western writers such as John Steinbeck and Norman Maclean, this collection is a riveting testament to the power of place. At the same time it communicates vividly the sensibility and range of this most gifted of American writers, historians, and environmentalists.

Author: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 04/09/2002
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780375759321
ISBN10: 0375759328
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | American | General
- Fiction | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures

About the Author
T. H. Watkins (1936-2000) was the first Wallace Stegner Dis-tinguished Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University. Watkins wrote twenty-eight books on history, the environment, and nature, including Righteous Pilgrim: The Life of Harold Ickes, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Award.