Young Men and Fire: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

ISBN: 9780226450353
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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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: MacLean, Norman
  • ISBN: 9780226450353
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 352
  • Publication Year: 2017

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  • Death of the young seen through the eyes of the old

    Stephen G. - 7 years 8 months ago

    Norman MacLean, known for his work A River Runs Through It, examines the first major casualty disaster for the then-young smoke jumpers of the US Forest Service. The story itself is compelling, and MacLean brings his writer's touch to make it richer. He himself served as a wild land fire fighter for the Forest Service, so he comes with knowledge of his own. What really makes the book "work", however, is the story-within-a-story. As he chronicles the unexpected death of 13 young men, he, as a much older man, is facing his own mortality. This is one of those books one can read and then reread.

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