These Thousand Hills

Informationen zum Autor A. B. GUTHRIE, JR. (1901–1991), was the author of numerous books, including six Big Sky novels, as well as the Academy Award–nominated screenplay for the classic film Shane . He received the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Way West. Guthrie was honored for his contribution to literature and his portrayal of the American West. Klappentext When These Thousand Hills was published in 1956, The Saturday Review proclaimed it to be "so compelling that it is hard indeed to set aside until it has been devoured." Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, this intimate saga delights in a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting eccentrics as they chase after love and their unbridled ambitions. At its center is Lat Evans, good-hearted and yet seduced by the possibilities for prosperity in his new life; gradually he discerns how the perils of the natural world, and most especially human nature, can conspire to frustrate a young man's best intentions. A lively, quixotic revisit to our historic youth, this literary classic deftly captures western drama at its finest, with all its accompanying toils of the heart. Zusammenfassung When These Thousand Hills was published in 1956, The Saturday Review proclaimed it to be "so compelling that it is hard indeed to set aside until it has been devoured." Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, this intimate saga delights in a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting eccentrics as they chase after love and their unbridled ambitions. At its center is Lat Evans, good-hearted and yet seduced by the possibilities for prosperity in his new life; gradually he discerns how the perils of the natural world, and most especially human nature, can conspire to frustrate a young man's best intentions. A lively, quixotic revisit to our historic youth, this literary classic deftly captures western drama at its finest, with all its accompanying toils of the heart. ...

Product details

• Authors: A. B. Guthrie, Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Alfred Bertram Jr. Guthrie, Jr. Guthrie
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.1995
• EAN: 9780395755204
• ISBN: 978-0-395-75520-4
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Big Sky; Big Sky
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Romance: ‘western’, rural or ‘outback’, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Adventure fiction: Westerns, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Romance / Western, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary, novel;history;fiction;historical;alternate;1994;1995;1996