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Young Men and Fire

By Norman Maclean

A riveting account of the Mann Gulch forest fire that took the lives of 13 Forest Service firefighters. 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.

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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 soul369 pgs.

By the author of A River Runs Through It, a riveting account of the Mann Gulch forest fire that took the lives of 13 Forest Service firefighters.

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"Maclean was one of our finest writers. Here the author of A River Runs Through It has given us the deep and compelling story of Montana's Mann Gulch fire." - Annie Dillard

"You've got to read this book... It is the redolent of Melville." - Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World

"Maclean is always with the brave young dead...They could not have found a storyteller with a better claim to represent their honor...A great book." - James Kincaid, New York Times Book Review

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