Savage West - The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage (Paperback)

Thomas Savage (1915-2003) was one of the intermountain West's best novelists. His thirteen novels received high critical praise, yet he remained largely unknown by readers. Although Savage spent much of his later life in the Northeast, his formative years were spent in southwestern Montana, where the mountain West and his ranching family formed the setting for much of his work. O. Alan Weltzien's insightful and detailed literary biography chronicles the life and work of this neglected but deeply talented novelist. Savage, a closeted gay family man, was both an outsider and an insider, navigating an intense conflict between his sexual identity and the claustrophobic social restraints of the rural West. Unlike many other Western writers, Savage avoided the formula westerns- so popular in his time- and offered instead a realistic, often subversive version of the region. His novels tell a hard, harsh story about dysfunctional families, loneliness, and stifling provincialism in the small towns and ranches of the northern Rockies, and his minority interpretation of the West provides a unique vision and caustic counternarrative contrary to the triumphant settler-colonialism themes that have shaped most Western literature. Savage West seeks to claim Thomas Savage's well-deserved position in American literature and to reintroduce twenty-first-century readers to a major Montana writer.

General

Imprint:	University of Nevada Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2022
Authors:	O. Alan Weltzien
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	266
ISBN-13:	978-1-64779-067-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	1-64779-067-0
Barcode:	9781647790677

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