Owning It All: Essays
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Book Overview
This is a deeply felt and highly informed essay collection about life in the American west by one of the finest writers ever to emerge from that region. As the Seattle Times has said of Owning It All... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0915308967
ISBN13:9780915308965
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Graywolf Press
Length:182 Pages
Weight:0.58 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.3" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Probably one of the best books I've read...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
A collection of essays that have appeared in various magazines & journals, Kittredge does a wonderful job painting a picture of Warner Valley and the American West. He makes it easy to understand how anyone could dream of traveling West in the hope of finding a new way of life. Easy to pick up but impossibe to put down!
The Best Book Ever Written About the Warner Valley!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
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 appreciate Kittredge's eloquence in describing his own family's ultimately self-defeating attempts to do just that. This is Lake County as it was and is...a world apart from the Cool Green Vacationland of Western Oregon...where everything is connected to everything else, and Owning It All may be the only way to wrest a living from the land, but becomes an ephermeral concept that comes to no good end. History, geography, personal biography...an underappreciated book by a master whose prose is as tight as your puckered lips when it's 14 with a 45 mile an hour north wind on a late October morning in the Catlow Valley.
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