Marking the Sparrow's Fall
Subtitle: The Making of the American West
Contributors: Page Stegner (Editor)
Publisher: Owl Books
Published: September 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780805062960
Subjects: Modern fiction; United States - West - General; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; USA; Essays; Essays & Travelogues; Nature / Essays; American - General
First sentence: Unless everything in a man's memory of childhood is misleading, there is a time somewhere between the ages of five and twelve that corresponds to the phase ethologists have isolated in the development of birds, when an impression lasting only a few seconds may be imprinted on the young bird for life.