num_pages: 227
description: Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West gathers together Wallace Stegner’s most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With subjects ranging from the writer’s own “migrant childhood” to the need to protect what remains of the great western wilderness (which Stegner dubs “the geography of hope”) to poignant profiles of western writers such as John Steinbeck and Norman Maclean, this collection is a riveting testament to the power of place. At the same time it communicates vividly the sensibility and range of this most gifted of American writers, historians, and environmentalists.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
titlecomplete: Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
genres: Writing, Biography, Nature, Westerns, Environment, Memoir, Nonfiction, Essays, Travel, History
ratings_count: 1895
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Random House