{"product_id":"the-sound-of-mountain-water-the-changing-american-west-9780525435433","title":"The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wallace Stegner\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Mountain Water \u003c\/i\u003eencompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Compositions delve into the post-World War II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West--from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada--into the modern age. Other works feature eloquent sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as Robbers Roost and Glen Canyon. A final section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past and the diminished present, and analyzesd the difficulties facing any contemporary Western writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and by a writer and thinker who will always hold a unique position in modern American letters, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Mountain Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a hymn to the Western landscape, an affirmation of the hope emobided therein, and a careful and rich investigation of the West's complex legacy.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408994525335,"sku":"9780525435433","price":1494.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780525435433.webp?v=1767105736","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-sound-of-mountain-water-the-changing-american-west-9780525435433","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}