{"product_id":"young-men-and-fire-1","title":"Young Men and Fire","description":"On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States 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 these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYoung Men and Fire\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A magnificent drama of writing, a tragedy that pays tribute to the dead and offers rescue to the living.... Maclean's search for the truth, which becomes an exploration of his own mortality, is more compelling even than his journey into the heart of the fire. His description of the conflagration terrifies, but it is his battle with words, his effort to turn the story of the 13 men into tragedy that makes this book a classic.\"—from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Best Books of 1992\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A treasure: part detective story, part western, part tragedy, part elegy and wholly eloquent ghost story in which the dead and the living join ranks cheerfully, if sometimes eerily, in a search for truth and the rest it brings.\"—Joseph Coates, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, \u003ci\u003eYoung Men and Fire\u003c\/i\u003e miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.\"—Timothy Foote, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Beautiful.... A dark American idyll of which the language can be proud.\"—Robert M. Adams, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eYoung Men and Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is redolent of Melville. Just as the reader of \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e comes to comprehend the monstrous entirety of the great white whale, so the reader of \u003ci\u003eYoung Men and Fire\u003c\/i\u003e goes into the heart of the great red fire and comes out thoroughly informed. Don't hesitate to take the plunge.\"—Dennis Drabelle, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eYoung Men and Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is a somber and poetic retelling of a tragic event. It is the pinnacle of smokejumping literature and a classic work of 20th-century nonfiction.\"—John Holkeboer, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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 R. Kincaid, \u003ci\u003eNew\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYork Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48432782082303,"sku":"*R0084749*","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/17234493482268.jpg?v=1777051053","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/young-men-and-fire-1","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}