num_pages: 238
description: 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 became of their dream after they reached the edge.
language: English
title: Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Hole in the Sky: A Memoir
genres: Family, Biography, Environment, Autobiography, Natural History, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Westerns, Memoir
ratings_count: 348
publisher: Vintage