Hole in the Sky A Memoir

Name: Hole in the Sky A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780679740063

ISBN-10: 0679740066

ISBN-13: 9780679740063

Edition: N/A

Authors: William Kittredge

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.12" wide x 8.03" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




Falling



Territory



The Shattered Piano


Interlude



The Promise of Generations



The Beautiful House



Who Owns the West?



Sleeping Alone



Selling Out


Interlude



Paradise All Around