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Bad Land: An American Romance
Winner:National Book Critics Circle Award -General Nonfiction (1996)
Winner:Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award -Regional Book (1997)
Seduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader's dream strips away the myth--while preserving the romance--that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Oct 7th, 1997
- Pages: 364
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.26in - 0.98in - 0.69lb
- EAN: 9780679759065
- Categories: • United States - 19th Century• United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO• American Government - General
About the Author
JONATHAN RABAN is the author of the novels Surveillance and Waxwings; his nonfiction works include Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, and Driving Home. 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.
Praise for this book
A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award
"As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time." --The New York Times Book Review "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. " --The Washington Post Book World "Exceptional.... A beautifully told historical meditation. " --Time "Championship prose.... In fifty years don't be surprised if Bad Land is a landmark." --Los Angeles Times
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award
"As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time." --The New York Times Book Review "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. " --The Washington Post Book World "Exceptional.... A beautifully told historical meditation. " --Time "Championship prose.... In fifty years don't be surprised if Bad Land is a landmark." --Los Angeles Times