The Portable Western Reader - Portable Library

Publisher Marketing: The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems, essays, and excerpts that transcend the Western myth and explore the vast range of Western experience. With selections from more than seventy authors, and an introduction and headnotes by William Kittredge. The Portable Western Reader redefines the Western literary landscape. Publisher Marketing: The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems, essays, and excerpts that transcend the Western myth and explore the vast range of Western experience. With selections from more than seventy authors, and an introduction and headnotes by William Kittredge. The Portable Western Reader redefines the Western literary landscape. Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/1997 pg. 1648 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Library Journal 07/01/1997 pg. 130 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1997 pg. 90 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 551 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 585 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 753 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 901 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1998 pg. 51 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 333 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 433 (EAN 9780140230260, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Kittredge, William Richard Hugo was for many years the director of the creative writing program at the University of Montana, Missoula Campus. He received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize and was twice nominated for the National Book Award. Contributor Bio:  Various The Marvel and Other Short Stories is a collected anthology of six short stories written by the winners of the Austin Macauley World Book Day short story competition.