William Kittredge, Author . Knopf $24.95 (339p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4097-1
Memoirist and story writer Kittredge's first novel (after The Nature of Generosity
and Hole in the Sky
) tells the life story of Rossie Benasco, the ornery son of a Reno, Nev., casino pit boss who, at age 15 in the early 1930s, takes work as a &
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William Kittredge, Author Mercury House $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-56279-078-3
Westerners have always had the difficult job of fulfilling the American dream of escape. But at what cost? Those arid stretches of desert and snow-peaked mountain ranges entail responsibilities forgotten long ago on the coasts and in the Midwest, or
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William Kittredge, Author Graywolf Press $15 (240p) ISBN 978-1-55597-479-4
The American West writing of author Kittredge (The Willow Field), who grew up on a cattle ranch in Oregon and has lived and worked for three decades in Montana, is known for its honesty and reverence. In this collection of essays, many of which...
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William Kittredge, Author Graywolf Press $12 (182p) ISBN 978-0-915308-96-5
This is an illustrative and insightful collection of essays on the American West (originally appearing in various magazines) by a man who grew up on a ranch in Oregon and at the age of 33, disillusioned and dissatisfied, left agriculture and turned...
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William Kittredge, Author Alfred A. Knopf $20 (238p) ISBN 978-0-679-41166-6
The author's grandfather, William Kittredge, began in 1911 to amass what he thought would be paradise for himself and for his descendants: a cattle and farming empire of more than 15,000 acres in the Warner Valley of southeastern Oregon. He reshaped
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William Kittredge, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-43752-9
In this memoir turned inside out, veteran writer Kittredge (who won the PEN West Literary Award for his earlier autobiography, Hole in the Sky) jigs in and out of his childhood on an isolated ranch in Oregon and the much older cities of Europe to...
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