{"product_id":"bad-land-an-american-romance-paperback","title":"Bad Land: An American Romance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Raban\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. - \"As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone bold or foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelessly inventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of them immigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In Bad Land, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country that was the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their story come miraculously alive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its name to Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in the landscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of American history, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its own hopeful myths and bitter memories.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. \"\u003cbr\u003e--Washington Post Book World \u003cbr\u003eIn 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone bold or foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelessly inventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of them immigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In Bad Land, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country that was the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their story come miraculously alive. \u003cbr\u003eIn towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its name to Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in the landscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of American history, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its own hopeful myths and bitter memories. Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. \u003cbr\u003e\"Exceptional. . . . A beautifully told historical meditation. \"\u003cbr\u003e--Time \u003cbr\u003e\"Championship prose. . . . In fifty years don't be surprised if Bad Land is a landmark.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJONATHAN RABAN\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaxwings;\u003c\/i\u003e his nonfiction works include \u003ci\u003ePassage to Juneau, Bad Land, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Driving Home\u003c\/i\u003e. His honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN\/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He died in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 364\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 7.94 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (1996)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (1997)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47278785003769,"sku":"9780679759065","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/c1pVSnlYVHNPVS9sV09yY1VTMEViZz09.webp?v=1769012752","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bad-land-an-american-romance-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}