This is a deeply felt and highly informed essay collection about life in the American west by one of the finest writers ever to emerge from that region. As the Seattle Times has said of Owning It All: "You may never again see the American west in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge. [This is a] stunning book." Having grown up on his family's cattle ranch in eastern Oregon, Kittredge directly confronts the contradictions and myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and love of the land.
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"These autobiographical essays about growing up in the West affirm Kittredge’s place as one of our most astute western writers."—The Bloomsbury Review
"Here is an important book! Not the least because of Kittredge’s own wonderful prose style, which places this book in the company of such classics as Norman McLean’s A River Runs Through It, Ivan Doig’s House Made of Sky, John Graves’ Goodbye to a River, D.L. Davis’s rural essays, and Wallace Stegner’s Wolf Willow. You ought not miss this fine new book."—Albuquerque Journal Magazine
"Owning it All establishes [Kittredge] as one of this generation’s most provocative and thoughtful observers of the American West as it is today, and how it camr to be that way." —The Kansas City Star
"Owning it All brings together fourteen occasional pieces in which Kittredge attempts, in prose as hard and smooth as the pebbles in a mountain stream, to understand what it means to be a westerner."—New York Newsday
William Kittredge grew up on a cattle ranch in Southeast Oregon and farmed there until he was 33, after which he taught Creative Writing at the University of Montana. He is the author of several widely celebrated books on the Western experience, including Hole in the Sky (a memoir) and We Are Not in This Together (a book of short fiction).
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