books by William Kittredge     books:       The Portable Western Reader (Viking Portable Library)4 reviews Topeka Bindery, 1997 Thank you, William Kittredge I'm only 66 pages into it, but I love this book. I would never have known some of these writers. My favorites so far are the Navajo night chant "House Made Of The Dawn" and the writings of Linda Hogan, John Graves and Louise Erdrich. Thank you for editing this book. What a pleasure to read such high-quality writing. Such a sense of the American West. Such voices. I like the John Graves story ...             The Best of Montana's Short Fiction1 review The Lyons Press, 2005 Big sky writers . . . Of all the Western states, Montana surely has had more than its share of good writers. Here are short stories by 21 of them, each a well crafted and telling glimpse into the lives of modern day people living under that timeless Big Sky. Many of my favorites are here, especially Ralph Beer and Kim Zupan, neither of whom have written and published nearly enough fiction or nonfiction for my money. ...             Following the Wrong God Home: Footloose in an American Dream (Outdoor Lives)7 reviews Clive Scott Chisholm Bison Books, 2009 Well of Hope Is the American Dream an empty hole(or whole)? Clive Chisholm takes a hard look at that in his trek across the American West, following the trail the Mormons blazed in 1847. Those Mormons were seeking their dream, their promised land. Chisholm, looking deeply at their experience through their journals, overlaps them with his modern day rediscovery of what is left of their trail. In the process, ...             In These Hills4 reviews Ralph Beer Bison Books, 2003 Essays finely crafted as a log barn or a good fence Ralph Beer is one of my favorite Montana writers. In both fiction and nonfiction, he's hard to beat. This collection of short essays describes his life as a rancher outside Helena, Montana. Many of them are humorous and rich with Western wit; some have a melancholy undertone; all are very finely crafted. Working a ranch that has been in his family for four generations, Beer slowly comes to terms ...             Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo2 reviews Richard Hugo W. W. Norton, 1991 great poetry In the last years of Hugo's life he taught writting at the University of Montana. His classes were popular, but not crowded. He loved sharing stories with his students, and he listened at least as well as he spoke. Richard's poetry is like this too: sounds come from reading these words of a lifetime, sounds that are passed to you by the gift of a great writer and great listener. These are poems ...             The Complete Works of Shakespeare25 reviews William Shakespeare Ginn and company, 1936 Still the best This was the text for my college Shakespeare classes over 20 years ago (different edition of course) I still have it and still use it. A wonderful book for students and those who want not only the complete works but some well written and authoritative information about Shakespeare and the world in which he lived and wrote. The texts of the plays are well foot-noted and the type is easy on the ...             Montana (Second Edition): High, Wide, and Handsome2 reviews Joseph Kinsey Howard Bison Books, 2003 This is THE book on Montana. If you want to know the story of Montana, this is where you start. It's written by the best journalist-writer who ever lived in the state (excluding Bud Guthrie, of course, who chose fiction instead). It must be understood that it is not a "definitive history" as Howard himself stated, but a personal narrative of what matters. In the past two decades, a cottage industry of Howard-bashing has ...             The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge2 reviews William Kittredge Graywolf Press, 2003 Stories from the Great Basin. . . This is a fine collection of stories set in the West by a man who grew up on a big family ranch in southern Oregon and eventually settled as a writer in western Montana. Kittredge is a promoter of other Western writers' talent, editing anthologies like "The Portable Western Reader" for Penguin and helping to bring to the screen a film version of Norman Maclean's "A River Runs Through It." In this ...             Owning It All2 reviews William Kittredge Graywolf Pr, 1987 The Best Book Ever Written About the Warner Valley! The title says it all! If you've ever slept in the high country of Southeastern Oregon and been awakened by the brilliance of the moon, the mournful hooting of an owl or a coyote's howl at a time too late to remember but too early to get up, and while trying to get back to sleep on ground too hard and cold realized that we can never OWN the land, we only exist as part of it, you will ...             Who Owns the West?2 reviews William Kittredge Mercury House, 1995 The West can be a personal story In Who Owns the West, William Kittredge takes us on an emotional, often thought provoking ride of his intimate encounters with landscapes, friends, family, and fellow writers of the Western United States. His thoughts and reflections are often framed around what is our relationship with the land and one another. The book spans both the time and distance axes of Kittredge's life. Running from ...             The Last Running1 review John Graves The Lyons Press, 1999 THE NATURAL SAVAGE THIS IS NOT A BAMBI ANIMAL STORY AND SHOULD ONLY BE READ BY PEOPLE WITH REALITY BASED VALUE SYSTEMS LEST THEY OR THEIR CHILDREN GET HUNGUP ON THE BRUTALITY OF THE COMANCHE'S "HARVEST" OF THEIR LAST BUFFALO.BUT...FOR THOSE OF US LIVING CLOSE TO THE EARTH THAT KNOW HOW PROTEIN GETS IN THOSE CELOPHANE WRAPPERS;THIS SHORT STORY SET ON THE HIGH PLAINS OF NORTH TEXAS BRINGS HOME THE HUMAN REALITY ...             I found Israel's atom bomb factory2 reviews George William Kittredge Schooner Bay Printing, Inc, 2000 Outstanding biography of an old submarine skipper Captain George Kittredge's book is named for only a small part of his incredibly exciting life in the world of submarines. He served in WWII in both surface combat, then the submarine force. His time spent with the diplomatic corps is exciting and very humorous at times. The later years he spent designing and building midget submarines bring to light a whole different aspect of his underwater ...             Southwestern Homelands (National Geographic Directions)1 review William Kittredge National Geographic, 2002 Homelands are emotional homes In the upper Rockies movement south is pervasive. There is a yearning for nomadism. In the Southwest landforms are impossible to ignore. Human settlement runs up against aridity in the Southwest. The author first visited the Southwest in 1968 after attending writers' school at the University of Iowa. By 1976 Kittredge was saying that the American West was a manufactured story and it was in ...             The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology2 reviews University of Washington Press, 1990 A Rare Gift The Last Best Place is an anthology with incredible breadth and scope. It was put together over a three year period by a group of dedicated editors and researchers headed up by Annick Smith and William Kittredge. The goal was to identify and preserve Montanna's rich literary heritage ranging from the earliest Native American inhabitants and explorers to contemporary authors such as Rick Newby ...             The Nature of Generosity3 reviews William Kittredge Knopf, 2000 Provides an observation of cultural diversity William Kittredge's Nature of Generosity blends a memoir of the author's early life on his family's ranch with a travel account of his search for diversity around the world. With a definite philosophical twist, this provides an observation of cultural diversity and human nature which is filled with interesting insights.             Kittredge Shakespeare: Othello18 reviews William Shakespeare Ginn, 1949 What passion! What subtlety! This Othello is unbelievably beautiful. Disconnecting oneself from The Operative and Obi-Wan Kenobi, and concentrating only on the voices of the fabulous Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan MacGregor, one gets a truly immersive experience into the world of jealousy, racism, betrayal, and true love that Shakespeare must originally have intended. I have to not-so-respectfully disagree with the previous ...             Hole In The Sky : A Memoir8 reviews William Kittredge Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 Lost on the range Kittredge's excellent, thoughtful, and well-written book is a memoir of growing up on a ranch in southeastern Oregon. This is arid country where spring runoff from the mountains gathers in lakes and swamps used for millennia as a stopover by migrating waterbirds. Enter the enterprising Kittredge family, and during the 20th century thousands of acres here were transformed into a vast irrigated ...             The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays1 review William Kittredge Graywolf Press, 2007 Living in the Past and Embracing the Future Who better to describe the Westerner condition than William Kittredge. Not only is he one of the West's most celebrated writers but is the son of a rancher from southeastern Oregon. Kittredge inherited his father's ranch and stuck it out until he hit 33 when headed off to study and teach creative writing first in Iowa and then Montana. Kittredge's homeland is not the kind of place where most ...             Doug and the End of the World1 review Dennis Garvey, Tom Nichols Econo-Clad Books, 2000 great little Book for fans of Quailman! I liked this book because it shows Doug worring about the world coming to an end by an astroid.. He tries to forget about it by hanging out with his friends, but they are all talking about it.. Doug imagins himself as Quailman tring to save the world from the astroid... I thought that it was nice to see this book come out.. I have always liked the Quailman Character because it helps Doug resolve ...              search for books american, anthology, certain, collected, complete, directions, edition, factory, fiction, following, footloose, generosity, geographic, handsome, homelands, kittredge, library, montana, national, othello, outdoor, portable, richard, running, selected, shakespeare, southwestern, stories, western, william books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Magie der Farben: Aquarelle aus dem Tessin (Insel Taschenbuch) we recommend Well of Hope leave a comment home  impressum - about us