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Young Men and Fire: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
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Young Men and Fire: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Hardcover - 2017

by Norman MacLean; Foreword by Timothy Egan


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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, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Alongside Maclean's now-canonical A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Maclean's later triumph--the last book he would write--includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul.

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  • Title Young Men and Fire: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
  • Author Norman MacLean; Foreword by Timothy Egan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Anv
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226475455 / 022647545X
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.4 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 3.56 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Officials and employees, Smokejumpers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016053338
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.379

About the author

Norman Maclean (1902-90), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in and around Missoula, Montana, and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service before beginning his academic career. He was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago until 1973.
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