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Strong West Wind, A by Gail Caldwell A great American memoir Soft Cover
Strong West Wind, A by Gail Caldwell
A great American memoir
Soft Cover
228 pages
Copyright 2006
CONTENTS
Prologue
PART ONE
Chapter 1 - Chapter 7
PART TWO The past is never dead. Its not even past.-William Faulkner, requiem for a Nun
Chapter 8 - Chapter 11
Evensong
Acknowledgments
ON THE BACK COVER
"Deeply felt ... a tautly written account of growing up in the Texas Panhandle during the 195os and 196os ... rich with incident and excitement ... [Gail Caldwell] has built this particular story to last."San Francisco Chronicle
In this exquisite memoir, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place.A Strong West Wind is the story of a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms, cattle ranches, and summer lightning and who took refuge from the vastness of the land by retreating into books. Caldwell would grow up to become a writer, but first she would have to fall in love with a man who was every mother's nightmare, live through the anguish and fire of the Vietnam years, and defy the father she adored.
A Strong West Wind is a memoir of culture and historyof fathers and daughters, of two world wars, and of the passionate rebellions of the sixties. But it is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life.
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