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Hole In The Sky: A Memoir
William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's settling of accounts with the land he grew up in. This is the story of a grandfather whose single-minded hunger for property won him a ranch the size of Delaware but estranged him from his family; of a father who farmed with tractors and drainage ditches but consorted with m...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
June 1st 1993
by Vintage
(first published 1992)
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Unflinching is probably overused when it comes to memoirs, but this one really is. Brutally honest about his shortcomings, but also beautiful in his descriptions of his fears, the landscape of the mountain west, and, in spots, supremely enlightening. Pretty clear that he longs for humans to be good to each other, even if he wasn't able to do that a lot of the time. A line, at the end, "I want to think that all creatures, even us, are in love with the makeup of their actualities like bats at...more
An interesting story, but the writing style was not my cup of tea. It seemed to ramble, and jump around a lot, so it was somewhat hard to follow what year it was, or what was going on.
I wanted to read it because I am from Montana, William Kittredge lives in Missoula where I lived and I like memoirs. Some parts were hard to get through but I am glad I have read it.
I enjoyed living a different lifestyle through this book.
In this autobiography, the author is brutally honest about mistakes, misconceptions and his imperfect view of the world as a young man. But for all of his candor, you realize that somewhere along the way he was transformed from clueless child to self-aware adult. The author employs the misuse of the American West to symbolize our tendency to trash our human spirits and lives and loved ones. But don't get me wrong: he is wise and gentle with everyone in this book... including himself. A thought-p...more
1993 PEN Center USA Award Winner for Nonfiction
I loved this book and underlined choice sentences like crazy until around the middle. Then I came back to its pages now and then. It's Kittredge's rough memoirs, and I really like how he ties it to the earth. But the second half of the book feels thrown together and uneven. He briefly mentions a part of his life spent with the Native American movement--enough to tease, and then he drops it quickly. The ending was dismally chaotic.
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