Strong West Wind A Memoir

Name: Strong West Wind A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780812972566

ISBN-10: 0812972562

ISBN-13: 9780812972566

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gail Caldwell

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In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty, its flat horizons broken only by oil derricks, grain elevators, and church steeples. Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who lit out for the territory, turned out to offer a…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/9/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English