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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 1992
- ISBN
- 9780226500621
- Book Title
- Young Men and Fire
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Nature, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Agriculture / Forestry, Natural Disasters, United States / 20th Century, Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, General
- Item Weight
- 15.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 316 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226500624
ISBN-13
9780226500621
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96748
Product Key Features
Book Title
Young Men and Fire
Number of Pages
316 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Agriculture / Forestry, Natural Disasters, United States / 20th Century, Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, General
Publication Year
1993
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-011890
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
This 1992 masterpiece of literary nonfiction is a taut, terrifying yet poetic account of how, in 1949, thirteen young firefighters lost their lives while fighting a conflagration in a remote, steeply sloped part of western Montana. Maclean . . . is unsparing in his prose and dogged in his reporting, piecing together the elements that led to more than a dozen men suffocating and burning to death. The story, which I've read at least four times now, is agonizing to read, making the hairs on my arms stand on end. It is also one of the most pleasurable experiences I've had., This 1992 masterpiece of literary nonfiction is a taut, terrifying yet poetic account of how, in 1949, thirteen young firefighters lost their lives while fighting a conflagration in a remote, steeply sloped part of western Montana. Maclean . . . is unsparing in his prose and dogged in his reporting, piecing together the elements that led to more than a dozen men suffocating and burning to death. The story, which I've read at least four times now, is agonizing to read, making the hairs on my arms stand on end. It is also one of the most pleasurable experiences I've had.
Dewey Decimal
634.96180978664
Table Of Content
Biographical Note Publisher's Note Black Ghost Young Men and Fire Part One Part Two Part Three Maps of Gates of the Mountains and western Montana
Synopsis
On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy. Young Men and Fire won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. "A magnificent drama of writing, a tragedy that pays tribute to the dead and offers rescue to the living.... Maclean's search for the truth, which becomes an exploration of his own mortality, is more compelling even than his journey into the heart of the fire. His description of the conflagration terrifies, but it is his battle with words, his effort to turn the story of the 13 men into tragedy that makes this book a classic."--from New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Best Books of 1992 "A treasure: part detective story, part western, part tragedy, part elegy and wholly eloquent ghost story in which the dead and the living join ranks cheerfully, if sometimes eerily, in a search for truth and the rest it brings."--Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory."--Timothy Foote, USA Today "Beautiful.... A dark American idyll of which the language can be proud."--Robert M. Adams, The New York Review of Books " Young Men and Fire is redolent of Melville. Just as the reader of Moby Dick comes to comprehend the monstrous entirety of the great white whale, so the reader of Young Men and Fire goes into the heart of the great red fire and comes out thoroughly informed. Don't hesitate to take the plunge."--Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World " Young Men and Fire is a somber and poetic retelling of a tragic event. It is the pinnacle of smokejumping literature and a classic work of 20th-century nonfiction."--John Holkeboer, The Wall Street Journal "Maclean is always with the brave young dead. . . . They could not have found a storyteller with a better claim to represent their honor. . . . A great book."--James R. Kincaid, New York Times Book Review
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