Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
Autor Norman Maclean Cuvânt înainte de Timothy Eganen Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2017
A
devastating
and
lyrical
work
of
nonfiction,Young
Men
and
Firedescribes
the
events
of
August
5,
1949,
when
a
crew
of
fifteen
of
the
US
Forest
Service’s
elite
airborne
firefighters,
the
Smokejumpers,
stepped
into
the
sky
above
a
remote
forest
fire
in
the
Montana
wilderness.
Two
hours
after
their
jump,
all
but
three
of
the
men
were
dead
or
mortally
burned.
Haunted
by
these
deaths
for
forty
years,
Norman
Maclean
puts
together
the
scattered
pieces
of
the
Mann
Gulch
tragedy
inYoung
Men
and
Fire,
which
won
the
National
Book
Critics
Circle
Award.
Alongside Maclean’s now-canonicalA River Runs through It and Other Stories,Young Men and Fireis recognized today as a classic of the American West. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author ofThe Big BurnandThe Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published,Young Men and Firehonors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul.
Alongside Maclean’s now-canonicalA River Runs through It and Other Stories,Young Men and Fireis recognized today as a classic of the American West. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author ofThe Big BurnandThe Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published,Young Men and Firehonors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226475455
ISBN-10: 022647545X
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 12 halftones, 6 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:Mărită
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 022647545X
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 12 halftones, 6 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:Mărită
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Norman
Maclean(1902–90),
woodsman,
scholar,
teacher,
and
storyteller,
grew
up
in
and
around
Missoula,
Montana,
and
worked
for
many
years
in
logging
camps
and
for
the
United
States
Forest
Service
before
beginning
his
academic
career.
He
was
the
William
Rainey
Harper
Professor
of
English
at
the
University
of
Chicago
until 1973.
Cuprins
Foreword
by
Timothy
Egan
(2017)
Publisher’s Note (1992)
Black Ghost
Young Men and Fire
Publisher’s Note (1992)
Black Ghost
Young Men and Fire
Part
One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Two
Part Three
Recenzii
“A
magnificent
drama
of
writing,
a
tragedy
that
pays
tribute
to
the
dead
and
offers
rescue
to
the
living.
.
.
.
Maclean’s
search
for
the
truth,
which
becomes
an
exploration
of
his
own
mortality,
is
more
compelling
even
than
his
journey
into
the
heart
of
the
fire.
.
.
.
A
classic.”
“A
taut,
terrifying
yet
poetic
account.
.
.
.
Maclean .
.
.
is
unsparing
in
his
prose
and
dogged
in
his
reporting,
piecing
together
the
elements
that
led
to
more
than
a
dozen
men
suffocating
and
burning
to
death.
The
story,
which
I’ve
read
at
least
four
times
now,
is
agonizing
to
read,
making
the
hairs
on
my
arms
stand
on
end.
It
is
also
one
of
the
most
pleasurable
experiences
I’ve
had.”
“An
astonishing
book.
In
compelling
language,
both
homely
and
elegant,Young
Men
and
Firemiraculously
combines
a
fascinating
primer
on
fires
and
firefighting,
a
powerful,
breathtakingly
real
reconstruction
of
a
tragedy,
and
a
meditation
on
writing,
grief,
and
human
character.
.
.
.
Maclean’s
last
book
will
stir
your
heart
and
haunt
your
memory.”
“Maclean
is
always
with
the
brave
young
dead.
.
.
.
They
could
not
have
found
a
storyteller
with
a
better
claim
to
represent
their
honor.
.
.
.
A
great
book.”
“Beautiful.
.
.
.
A
dark
American
idyll
of
which
the
language
can
be
proud.”
“A
treasure:
part
detective
story,
part
western,
part
tragedy,
part
elegy
and
wholly
eloquent
ghost
story
in
which
the
dead
and
the
living
join
ranks
cheerfully,
if
sometimes
eerily,
in
a
search
for
truth
and
the
rest
it
brings.”
“Young
Men
and
Fireis
redolent
of
Melville.
Just
as
the
reader
ofMoby-Dickcomes
to
comprehend
the
monstrous
entirety
of
the
great
white
whale,
so
the
reader
ofYoung
Men
and
Firegoes
into
the
heart
of
the
great
red
fire
and
comes
out
thoroughly
informed.
Don’t
hesitate
to
take
the
plunge.”
“Young
Men
and
Fireis
a
somber
and
poetic
retelling
of
a
tragic
event.
It
is
the
pinnacle
of
smokejumping
literature
and
a
classic
work
of
twentieth-century
nonfiction.”
“A
haunting
work.”
"The
bravery
of
an
unsung
profession;
this
is
a
tale
of
natural
disaster,
adventure,
and
male
camaraderie."
"Before
Norman
Maclean
was
a
writer
and
professor,
he
fought
fires
for
the
Forest
Service.
When
he
was
a
teenager,
he
nearly
died
in
a
Montana
wildfire.
'It
came
so
close
it
sounded
as
if
it
were
cracking
bones,
and
mine
were
the
only
bones
around,'
he
writes.
It’s
through
that
memory
of
terror,
thirst,
and
exhaustion
that
Maclean
begins
his
bookYoung
Men
and
Fire.
Thirteen
'smokejumpers'—firefighters
who
parachute
into
the
wilderness—died
in
the
1949
Mann
Gulch
fire.
With
an
almost
obsessive
attention
to
detail,
Maclean
reconstructs
their
story
using
the
skill
and
sensitivity
he
honed
as
a
novelist."