The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays

Kittredge, William

ISBN 10: 1555974791 / ISBN 13: 9781555974794

Published by Graywolf Press (edition 0), 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays
• Publisher: Graywolf Press (edition 0)
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555974791
• ISBN 13: 9781555974794
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 0.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

William Kittredge's relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to the vast landscape that was once vital to his family's trade. He has also witnessed, over many decades, the depletion of the West's natural resources due to overuse. In The Next Rodeo, the author's luminous essays move effortlessly from the personal to the political. With grace and integrity, Kittredge directly confronts the myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and the love of the land.

On the heels of Kittredge's first novel, The Willow Field, published to wide critical acclaim in 2006, we are pleased to offer the best of his nonfiction writings.

About the Author

William Kittredge grew up on a cattle ranch in southeastern Oregon. He taught creative writing at the University of Montana for twenty-nine years and retired as Regents Professor of English. He now lives in Missoula, Montana.