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Young Men and Fire - Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (Paperback, First Edition, Enlarged Ed.)
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Young Men and Fire - Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (Paperback, First Edition, Enlarged Ed.)
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Loot Price R595
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When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It
to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One
editor, so the story goes, replied, "It has trees in it." Forty
years later, the title novella is widely recognized as one of the
great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one
of the most beloved writers of our time. Maclean's later triumph,
Young Men and Fire, has over the decades also established itself as
a classic of the American West. And with this
twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, a fresh audience will be
introduced to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated emotional
insights. A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men
and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of
fifteen of the US 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 the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths
for forty years, in his last decades Maclean put together the
scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire,
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This
twenty-fifth-anniversary edition includes a powerful new foreword
by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time.
Though he grew up in the first decades of the twentieth century in
the western Rockies working summers in logging camps and for the US
Forest Service and cultivating a lifelong passion for the dry fly
it was only at the age of seventy, as a retired English professor,
that Norman Maclean discovered what he was meant to do: write.
Moving and profound, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy
of a man who improbably gave voice to an essential corner of the
American soul.
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