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

Author: Wallace Stegner Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Western Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375759321 0375759328

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. Similar books: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez The Merry Recluse by Caroline Knapp Vanishing Point by Ander Monson How to Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Stielstra My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum The Professor and Other Writings by Terry Castle Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick Learning to Drive by Katha Pollitt My Heart Is an Idiot by Davy Rothbart The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron Alibis by Andre Aciman Marking the Sparrow's Fall by Wallace Stegner Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner The Gathering of Zion by Wallace Stegner The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver