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Bad Land: An American Romance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679759065)
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xNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. - "As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time." --The New York Times Book Review
In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone bold or foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelessly inventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of them immigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In Bad Land, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country that was the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their story come miraculously alive. In towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its name to Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in the landscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of American history, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its own hopeful myths and bitter memories.
Author: Jonathan Raban
ISBN-10: 0679759069
ISBN-13: 9780679759065
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/07/1997
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.26w x 0.98d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/30/1997 pg. 32
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 96
Publishers Weekly 09/08/1997
In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone bold or foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelessly inventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of them immigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In Bad Land, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country that was the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their story come miraculously alive. In towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its name to Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in the landscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of American history, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its own hopeful myths and bitter memories.
Author: Jonathan Raban
ISBN-10: 0679759069
ISBN-13: 9780679759065
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/07/1997
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.26w x 0.98d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/30/1997 pg. 32
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 96
Publishers Weekly 09/08/1997
By Jonathan Raban
xJONATHAN RABAN is the author of the novels Surveillance and Waxwings; his nonfiction works include Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, and Driving Home. His honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He died in 2023.
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