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Mary Austin and the American West
Susan Goodman
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Description for Mary Austin and the American West
Hardback. A biography of Mary Austin that explores her life and achievement. It tells the larger story of the importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 255 x 30. Weight in Grams: 740.
Mary Austin (1868-1934) - eccentric, independent, and unstoppable - was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, 'changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be.' At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, "The Land of Little Rain", a wholly original look at ... Read more
Mary Austin (1868-1934) - eccentric, independent, and unstoppable - was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, 'changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be.' At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, "The Land of Little Rain", a wholly original look at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520246355
SKU
V9780520246355
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About Susan Goodman
Susan Goodman is the H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Carl Dawson is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Goodman and Dawson are the coauthors of William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life (UC Press).
Reviews for Mary Austin and the American West
"This rich, engaging biography explores the complexity of Austin's life in all the detail it so richly deserves."
Ashley M. Biggers New Mexico Magazine "A much needed reconsideration of the vagabond life and influential achievements of Mary Austin."
Donna Seaman Booklist "Goodman and Dawson's judicious biography makes a worthy contribution to our understanding of the literary West."
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Ashley M. Biggers New Mexico Magazine "A much needed reconsideration of the vagabond life and influential achievements of Mary Austin."
Donna Seaman Booklist "Goodman and Dawson's judicious biography makes a worthy contribution to our understanding of the literary West."
... Read more