Snow in America - Softcover

MERGEN BERNARD

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560983817 ISBN 13: 9781560983811

Publisher: Smithsonian, 1999

Synopsis

A celebration of snow in American history, literature, and culture picks through verse, urban planning documents, and leisure writings to uncover evidence of snow's place in American life. Original.

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Review:

Snow in America is likely to remain unsurpassed as a handbook for novelists wanting to set their stories in North America between November and March. -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, David Craig

Professor Mergen uses snow and responses to it as an illustration of both the practical and the emotional development of American character. Snow has changed from a moral resource encouraging endurance and ingenuity to a public nuisance to an ecological and economic resource. Poets have made it a metaphor for states ranging from euphoria to despair. This intelligent study is not ivory-tower theorizing. It deals firmly with street cleaning, the growth of the ski industry, water usage, winter carnivals, and even fashions in the making of snow forts and snowmen. It does all this well. -- The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe-Lou Adams

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1560983817
• ISBN 13: 9781560983811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322