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In this memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. Beginning in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle, she grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, and took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who lit out for the territory, turned out to offer a blueprint for her own future. Caldwell would become a writer, but first she would fall in love with a man who was every mother's nightmare, live through the Vietnam years, and defy the father she adored. This memoir of culture and history--of fathers and daughters, of two world wars and the passionate rebellions of the sixties--is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: how literature can shape and even anticipate a life.--From publisher description.A memoir by the critic for "The Boston Globe" offers a portrait of growing up in the Texas Panhandle during the 1950s and 1960s, describing her introspective childhood, love of reading, turbulent romance, and rebellion against her beloved father.
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Advance praise for A Strong West Wind
" I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventures in the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth in California, with the authentic voice of the children who once made life hell for the ' Greatest Generation' and in the process turned out pretty great themselves."
- Russell Baker
" Gail Caldwell's quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life's affections-- for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of the panhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book that runs in both directions: far away and home again."
-- Richard Ford
" Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life against literature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth of real feeling. This is a brave and moving work."
-- James Carroll
" An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something like alchemy-- taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands and turning them into pure gold."
-- Ward Just
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" I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventures in the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth in California, with the authentic voice of the children who once made life hell for the ' Greatest Generation' and in the process turned out pretty great themselves."
- Russell Baker
" Gail Caldwell's quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life's affections-- for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of the panhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book that runs in both directions: far away and home again."
-- Richard Ford
" Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life against literature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth of real feeling. This is a brave and moving work."
-- James Carroll
" An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something like alchemy-- taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands and turning them into pure gold."
-- Ward Just
"From the Hardcover edition."
Advance praise for A Strong West Wind
"I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventures in the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth in California, with the authentic voice of the children who once made life hell for the 'Greatest Generation' and in the process turned out pretty great themselves."
-Russell Baker
"Gail Caldwell's quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life's affections--for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of the panhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book that runs in both directions: far away and home again."
--Richard Ford
"Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life against literature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth of real feeling. This is a brave and moving work."
--James Carroll
"An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something like alchemy--taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands and turning them into pure gold."
--Ward Just
"From the Hardcover edition."
Advance praise for A Strong West Wind
"I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventures in the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth in California, with the authentic voice of the children who once made life hell for the 'Greatest Generation' and in the process turned out pretty great themselves."
-Russell Baker
"Gail Caldwell's quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life's affections--for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of the panhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book that runs in both directions: far away and home again."
--Richard Ford
"Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life against literature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth of real feeling. This is a brave and moving work."
--James Carroll
"An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something like alchemy--taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands and turning them into pure gold."
--Ward Just
"From the Hardcover edition."
Advance praise for A Strong West Wind
I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventures in the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth in California, with the authentic voice of the children who once made life hell for the Greatest Generation and in the process turned out pretty great themselves.
Russell Baker
Gail Caldwell s quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life s affections for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of the panhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book that runs in both directions: far away and home again.
Richard Ford
Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life against literature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth of real feeling. This is a brave and moving work.
James Carroll
An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something like alchemy taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands and turning them into pure gold.
Ward Just
"From the Hardcover edition.""
Advance praise for A Strong West Wind
I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventures in the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth in California, with the authentic voice of the children who once made life hell for the Greatest Generation and in the process turned out pretty great themselves.
Russell Baker
Gail Caldwell s quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life s affections for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of the panhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book that runs in both directions: far away and home again.
Richard Ford
Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life against literature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth of real feeling. This is a brave and moving work.
James Carroll
An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something like alchemy taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands and turning them into pure gold.
Ward Just
From the Hardcover edition."
Advance praise for A Strong West Wind
"I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventures in the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth in California, with the authentic voice of the children who once made life hell for the 'Greatest Generation' and in the process turned out pretty great themselves."
-Russell Baker
"Gail Caldwell's quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life's affections--for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of the panhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book that runs in both directions: far away and home again."
--Richard Ford
"Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life against literature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth of real feeling. This is a brave and moving work."
--James Carroll
"An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something like alchemy--taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands and turning them into pure gold."
--Ward Just
From the Hardcover edition.
Gail Caldwell is the chief book critic for The Boston Globe, where she has been a staff writer and critic since 1985. In 2001, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. She is also an avid rower. Caldwell lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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