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Also by William Kittredge:

The Next Rodeo, November 2007
Hardcover
The Last Best Place, June 1990
Paperback

THE NEXT RODEO
By: William Kittredge

New and Selected Essays

Graywolf Press
November 2007
On Sale: November 13, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 1555974791
EAN: 9781555974794
Hardcover
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Fiction

William Kittredge’s relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to the vast landscape that was once vital to his family’s trade. He has also witnessed, over many decades, the depletion of the West’s natural resources due to overuse. These luminous essays move effortlessly from the personal to the political. With grace and integrity, Kittredge directly confronts the myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and the love of the land.

On the heels of Kittredge’s first novel, The Willow Field, published to wide critical acclaim in 2006, we are pleased to offer the best of his nonfiction writings.

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All Things Considered - December 7, 2007