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Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis(American Lives)

Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis(American Lives)


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Bethany Maile had a mythological American West in mind when she returned to Idaho after dropping out of college in Boston, only to find a farm-town-turned-suburb instead of the Wild West wonderland she remembered. Haunted by what she had so completely misremembered, Maile resolved to investigate her attachment to the western myth, however flawed. Deciding to engage in a variety of “western” events, Maile trailed rodeo queens, bid on cattle, fired .22s at the gun range, and searched out wild horses. With lively reportage and a sharp wit, she recounts her efforts to understand how the western myth is outdated yet persistent while ultimately exploring the need for story and the risks inherent to that need. Anything Will Be Easy after This traces Maile’s evolution from a girl suckered by a busted-down story to a more knowing woman who discovers a new narrative that enchants without deluding.  

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Going West Anywhere, USA How Lady Antebellum Wrecked Country Music The Slaughterhouse Anything Will Be Easy after This The Wild Ones Ladies’ Night at the Shooting Range True Grit, Country Strong, and Other Lies The Trouble with Two-Heartedness  This Will See Us Through Notes

About the Author :
Bethany Maile is a professor of writing at Boise State University. Her work has been published in Shenandoah, the Rumpus, River Teeth, Prairie Schooner, High Desert Journal, and the Normal School.  

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"Blending personal insight with sharp-eyed cultural analysis, the author celebrates the West and Western identity without ever losing sight of the myriad complexities that underlie both. An eloquent and perceptive memoir in essays."-Kirkus Reviews "Anything Will Be Easy after This traces Maile's evolution from a girl suckered by a busted-down story to a more knowing woman who discovers a new narrative that enchants without deluding."-Entropy “Anything Will Be Easy after This pairs old school journalistic immersion with formal ingenuity and weds Maile’s healthy skepticism to her legit enthusiastic love for the West’s stories. Half excellent memoir and half blade-sharp cultural critique, this terrific book made me a convert to the complicated appeal of the state.”-Ander Monson, author of Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir   “Gorgeously written, vividly imagined, and poignantly observed, Maile’s open-eyed essays are a heartbroken love song to Idaho: what it was, what it never was, what it is, what it might yet be. Whether she is contemplating motherhood or mustangs or Ray LaMontagne, rodeo queens or Dairy Queen, True Grit, or the gut-wrenching shame of genocide, Maile is a brilliant new voice in and of the West.”-Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country   “Bethany Maile writes with the emotional clarity of William Kittredge and the historical attention of Timothy Egan. In this wise, wide-ranging debut, Maile roots her inquiry in the old western concerns of authenticity, mythology, land, and family, yet her approach is fresh, fun, even postmodern.”-Joe Wilkins, author of Fall Back Down When I Die  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781496222428
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Series Title: American Lives
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1496222423
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2020
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 222
  • Sub Title: A Western Identity Crisis


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