Edward Hoagland
Autor von The Best American Essays 1999
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Edward Hoagland has written more than twenty books, including the travel memoirs African Calliope and Notes from the Century Before, the essay collections Walking the Dead Diamond River, The Tugman's Passage, and Sex and River Styx, and the novels Cat Man and Seven Rivers West. He has received mehr anzeigen numerous prestigious literary awards and taught at many American colleges and universities. He is a native New Yorker, who now divides his time between Martha's Vineyard and his farmhouse in the mountains of northern, Vermont. weniger anzeigen
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Notes from The Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia (Modern Library Exploration) (1969) 142 Exemplare
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Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Mitwirkender — 63 Exemplare
The shameless diary of an explorer : a story of failure on Mt. McKinley (1907) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 55 Exemplare
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Mitwirkender — 37 Exemplare
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The author himself (this was written in the 1960s) has the attitude when speaking of women that they are OK for decoration, work & sex, but not much otherwise. I love that one of the old-timers he was interviewing told him that the major fault of his book was that he didn't interview any of the women!
I read this because I am interested about the area and the way of life of those who lived there, the natives and their interactions with the whites who came and what became of them. I think he was as fair-handed as one from his background could be at the time, without glossing over the condition.
Am I happy to have read this? Eh.
Would I read anything else by this author? Not voluntarily
Would I recommend it. Not unless you are obsessed with this type of story or this place.… (mehr)