{"product_id":"strong-west-wind-book-gail-caldwell-9781400062485","title":"A Strong West Wind","description":"In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. \u003cb\u003eA Strong West Wind\u003c\/b\u003e begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle-a place of both boredom and beauty, its flat horizons broken only by oil derricks, grain elevators, and church steeples. Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who 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 grow up to become a writer, but first she would have to fall in love with a man who was every mother's nightmare, live through the anguish and fire of the Vietnam years, and defy the father she adored, who had served as a master sergeant in the Second World War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Strong West Wind\u003c\/b\u003e is a memoir of culture and history-of fathers and daughters, of two world wars and the passionate rebellions of the sixties. But it is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaldwell possesses the extraordinary ability to illuminate the desires, stories, and lives of ordinary people. Written with humanity, urgency, and beautiful restraint, \u003cb\u003eA Strong West Wind\u003c\/b\u003e is a magical and unforgettable book, destined to become an American classic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49681728897297,"sku":"CIN1400062489G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50972404580625,"sku":"CIN1400062489A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416960368913,"sku":"CIN1400062489VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1400062489.jpg?v=1750954451","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/strong-west-wind-buch-gail-caldwell-9781400062485","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}