{"product_id":"bad-land-an-american-romance-9780679759065","title":"Bad Land: An American Romance","description":"A 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \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. Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Exceptional. . . . A beautifully told historical meditation. \"\u003cbr\u003e--Time \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Championship prose. . . . In fifty years don't be surprised if Bad Land is a landmark.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679759065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.26w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/30\/1997 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1997 pg. 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/08\/1997\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Raban","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42745894764725,"sku":"9780679759065","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6d30c34b-3767-4eea-a2ac-8dbc088a535e.jpg?v=1676994242","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bad-land-an-american-romance-9780679759065","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}