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Young Men & Fire
by Norman MacLean
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Norman MacLean scrupulously examines the tragic events of August 5, 1949, when lightning struck and started a forest fire in the Rocky Mountains. Thirteen young airborne firefighters were killed trying to extinguish it, when a 200-foot high firestorm erupted into a vast wall of death. MacLean, who had been both a forester and a firefighter in his youth, left the manuscript of this monumental work unfinished at his own death in 1990, at the age of 88; he had spent 14 years writing it.
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9780226500614,
Hardcover,
Univ of Chicago Pr,
1992
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9780939643509,
Audio Cassette,
Quayside Pub Group,
1993
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9781565113961,
Audio Cassette,
Penguin Group USA,
2000
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9780226500621,
Paperback,
Univ of Chicago Pr,
1993
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Publisher Notes
The NYT A River Runs Through It. In 1949, a crew of U.S. Forest Service Smokejumpers parachuted into a Montana forest fire. In less than an hour, all but three were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for 40 years, Maclean reconstructs the pieces print.
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"An extraordinary wise and lyrical narrative of wildfire and Smokejumpers; a haunting commentary on birth, sex, death, memory and rebirth; the memoir of 'heat and loneliness'."
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