Full name: Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

Author: William Kittredge Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Western Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679740063 0679740066

William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's settling of accounts with the land he grew up in. This is the story of a grandfather whose single-minded hunger for property won him a ranch the size of Delaware but estranged him from his family; of a father who farmed with tractors and drainage ditches but consorted with movie stars; and of Kittredge himself, who was raised by cowboys and saw them become obsolete, who floundered through three marriages, hard drinking, and madness before becoming a writer. Host hauntingly, Hole in the Sky is an honest reckoning of the American myth that drove generations of Americans westward -- and what became of their dream after they reached the edge. Similar books: The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl Please Excuse My Daughter by Julie Klam Look Back with Love by Dodie Smith Dreaming by Carolyn See Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton Sleeping with Cats by Marge Piercy Name All the Animals by Alison Smith Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick Moose by Stephanie Klein Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg Heart Earth by Ivan Doig Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour Tomboy Bride by Harriet Fish Backus Badluck Way by Bryce Andrews When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi