A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901–1991)
Autore di Il grande cielo: romanzo
Sull'Autore
A. B. Guthrie, Jr., is one of America's most celebrated writers of western literature. He received the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for "The Way West". Guthrie died in 1991. (Bowker Author Biography)
Serie
Opere di A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
The Big Sky [1952 film] — Autore — 13 copie
Fifty Years After The Big Sky: New Perspectives on the Fiction and Films of A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (2001) 3 copie
Four miles from Ear Mountain 1 copia
Guthrie Alfred Bertram 1 copia
The Way West [abridged] 1 copia
Opere correlate
Reader's Digest Best of the West: A Treasury of Western Adventure Volumes 1 & 2 (1976) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
Reader's Digest Best of the West: A Treasury of Western Adventure Volume 1 (1976) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Way West • My Cousin Rachel • The Cry and the Covenant (1956) — Autore — 3 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Lion • Collision Course • September Moon • The Way West (1949) 3 copie
These Thousand Hills [1959 film] — Original book — 3 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books Anthology, 1956 Vol. 1: The Way West • My Cousin Rachel • The Cry and the Covenant (1956) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Guthrie, A. B., Jr.
- Altri nomi
- Guthrie, Bud
Guthrie, Alfred Bertram, Jr. (birth name) - Data di nascita
- 1901-01-13
- Data di morte
- 1991-04-26
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Bedford, Indiana, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Choteau, Montana, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Bedford, Indiana, USA
Ontario, California, USA
Choteau, Montana, USA
Lexington, Kentucky, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard University
University of Montana - Attività lavorative
- journalist
editor
novelist
screenwriter - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1972)
Saddleman Award (1978)
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Recensioni
Fair Land, Fair Land by A. B. Guthrie is the third book in the series that he wrote about the American West. He started with The Big Sky, a story about mountain men, then moved on to The Way West detailing how pioneers followed the Oregon Trail settling and developing the region. This third book he called a finishing touch as he wanted closure for the characters of the first two books.
In Fair Land, Fair Land we once again meet Dick Summers, originally a mountain man who became a guide on the Oregon Trail. Now as he looks around, he can see and feel the end of his free way of life. More and more white people are settling, building farms and towns and changing the land. He and his friend Higgins decide to strike out and live a free life while they can. Along the way he meets and takes as his companion, Teal Eye, a young Blackfoot woman who he knew in the past. The book is leading us to his confrontation with Boone Caudill, a previous partner who owes Dick Summer an explanation for his behaviour that ended with the death of a good friend to both men.
This was my first read of Fair Land, Fair Land although I have long been a fan of A. B. Guthrie and have read most of his other books more than once. The author was well known in Montana as a conservationist and was strongly in favor of wolves being returned to Yellowstone Park. In this book he shows some of this by having Dick Summers becoming aware and pondering upon the end of the buffalo, the treatment of the Indians, and the eventual spoiling of the land by over development. This was a historically accurate portrayal but is also a moving and engrossing story.… (altro)
In Fair Land, Fair Land we once again meet Dick Summers, originally a mountain man who became a guide on the Oregon Trail. Now as he looks around, he can see and feel the end of his free way of life. More and more white people are settling, building farms and towns and changing the land. He and his friend Higgins decide to strike out and live a free life while they can. Along the way he meets and takes as his companion, Teal Eye, a young Blackfoot woman who he knew in the past. The book is leading us to his confrontation with Boone Caudill, a previous partner who owes Dick Summer an explanation for his behaviour that ended with the death of a good friend to both men.
This was my first read of Fair Land, Fair Land although I have long been a fan of A. B. Guthrie and have read most of his other books more than once. The author was well known in Montana as a conservationist and was strongly in favor of wolves being returned to Yellowstone Park. In this book he shows some of this by having Dick Summers becoming aware and pondering upon the end of the buffalo, the treatment of the Indians, and the eventual spoiling of the land by over development. This was a historically accurate portrayal but is also a moving and engrossing story.… (altro)
I read the first book in this series, The Big Sky, many years ago in an old Time-Life series of out of print books. It was very good (also a movie with Kirk Douglas, I think), and I wanted to read this sort-of sequel, especially since it is on many lists of the best westerns. However, it is not available as an e-book, so I did not read it out of principle. I recently realized that I wasn't sure what the principle was, so I bought a used paperback copy. It's quite good. I recommend that you read it with a copy of the Oregon Trail Map that the national park service has. You can download it as a .pdf file. Now I have a paperback copy that nobody wants, so if you are interested, I will give it to you.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 30
- Opere correlate
- 22
- Utenti
- 2,794
- Popolarità
- #9,206
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 71
- ISBN
- 152
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 4
The narrative arc follows Boone who is bold, too quick to anger, and instinctive; not just in his search for a better life, but in his single-minded quest for the girl/woman, Teal Eye. But living instinctively has its difficulties. Guthrie writes with a sparse precision and his use of backwoods dialogue is masterful, not only in its economy of expression but in its richness: The Big Sky has rhythms where we rest between passages of extreme tension, such as the theft of a horse at night, with closely observed evocations of landscape and the natural world inhabiting it. If the allegorical trajectory of the novel is the steady progression of Boone becoming part of that world as theystruggle up-stream. it is also the steady destruction of it and the over-riding sense of inevitable loss as Boone staggers towards internal and external confrontation at the very end. Summers shows us another side as he faulters in old-age. In many respects this is such a well observed book that I can also read it as the struggle today between the vanishing values of the analogue world as they are subsumed by the digital.
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