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American Places
Preface Foreword
American Places
Inheritance The Northeast Kingdom Last Exit to America The River Dead Heart of the West Crow Country High Plateaus The New Riders of the Purple Sage The Redwood Curtain There It Is: Take It Life Along the Fault Line Remnants Unfinished Business
Bibliography Index
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Matt Lowman
reviewed American Places on June 21, 2012
American Places
3.5 stars
"Tell me where you're from, and I'll tell you who you are." A few weeks after I read Wallace Stegner's words in the early pages of American Places, my husband and I traveled from Oregon to North Carolina. As we walked into the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum, Stegner's quote greeted us in the foyer.
I read a library copy, a coffee-table book. The huge chunks of text on the page made it daunting -- until the writing rewarded my efforts. I love Wallace Stegner's fiction, but these essays were pleasant, but not compelling reading.
Vermont, South Carolina, Dubuque, Salt Lake, Beartooth Pass, Santa Cruz. The Stegner father-son combo explores what makes these places unique, how they've transformed the people who inhabit them.
One of the most dramatic synchronizations of my reading life arrived reading the chapter on Humboldt County, California, the place my husband and I started our married life. Traveling on a Sunday afternoon in Eastern Oregon, we happened upon the topic of the most splendid drives we've taken. Scotland, California's Highway 1, the Rocky Mountains, Montana's Lolo Pass. After a pause, Curt said, "If I could only choose one, it'd be the Mattole Road, from Ferndale to Petrolia. It felt like we were the only ones on the earth, the first to discover the Pacific Ocean."
The. very. next. day. I read Paige Stegner's chapter including the drive from Ferndale to Petrolia. Serendipity. Synchronicity. Synthesis. Sweet!
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