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The Willow Field
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Annie Dillard has called him â€œone of our finest writers.â€ Jane Smiley has declared his voice â€œprophetic.â€Â Now, at long lastâ€”after two collections of stories, another two of essays, and the heralded memoir A Hole in the Skyâ€”William Kittredge gives us his first novel: an epic that stretches over the twentieth century, from the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it.

Rossie Benascoâ€™s horseback existence begins when heâ€™s fifteen and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than two hundred head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary, through Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, across virgin wilderness, failed homesteads, ghost towns, squattersâ€™ camps, and Indian settlements. Itâ€™s a journey that leads him, ultimately, to Eliza Stevenson and a love so powerful that his vocational aimlessness is focused only by his desire to spend his life with her: whether on her family ranch in the Bitterroot, which will prove their best refuge from a century fraught with war and civil strife, or on sojourns in Hawaii and Guam during World War II, or in the horse-trading business in California, or on the campaign trail throughout Montana.

A novel rich with landscapes and characters, The Willow Field chronicles a way of life nearly extinct at the novelâ€™s beginning and surviving only in memory upon its close at centuryâ€™s end. And as these people pivot between the ghosts of the old frontier and the modern world that engulfs themâ€”from the uprooted lives of the Blackfeet tribes left listless and betrayed to the ravages of war, McCarthyism, urban riots, and insidious land developmentâ€”the perennial imperatives of ambition, responsibility, and love prove as vital as ever, revealed as they are with the conviction, humor, and humanity for which Kittredge has long been acclaimed.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-09-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400040971

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2006-09-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400040971