George R. Stewart (1895–1980)
Autor/a de Earth Abides
Sobre l'autor
George R. Stewart (1895-1980) was a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley
Obres de George R. Stewart
American place-names; a concise and selective dictionary for the continental United States of America (1970) 71 exemplars
American Given Names: Their Origin and History in the Context of the English Language (1986) 55 exemplars
Donner Pass and those who crossed it; the story of the country made notable by the Stevens Party, the Donner Party, the… (1960) 16 exemplars
The year of the oath; the fight for academic freedom at the University of California (1950) 12 exemplars
Take your Bible in one hand; the life of William Henry Thomes, author of A whaleman's adventures on land and sea,… (1939) 8 exemplars
John Phoenix, Esq., the veritable Squibob : a life of Captain George H. Derby, U.S.A., (1937) 5 exemplars
Doctor's oral 5 exemplars
The technique of English verse 2 exemplars
Good lives 2 exemplars
La bianca dama della California 1 exemplars
A bibliography of the writings of Bret Harte in the magazines and newspapers of California, 1857-1871 (1977) 1 exemplars
A Little of Myself: oral history 1 exemplars
Diary of Patrick Breen 1 exemplars
To California by Covered Wagon 1 exemplars
Obres associades
A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Col·laborador — 463 exemplars
Reader's Digest Best of the West: A Treasury of Western Adventure Volumes 1 & 2 (1976) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
Reader's Digest Best of the West: A Treasury of Western Adventure Volume 1 (1976) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Recollections of Old Times in California or, California Life in 1843 (1974) — Introducció — 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Stewart, George R.
- Nom oficial
- Stewart, George Rippey, Jr.
- Data de naixement
- 1895-05-31
- Data de defunció
- 1980-08-22
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Sewickley, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Educació
- Princeton University (BA|1917)
University of California, Berkeley (MA|1920)
Columbia University (PhD|English literature|1922) - Professions
- historian
toponymist
novelist
Professor of English - Organitzacions
- University of California, Berkeley
American Name Society - Premis i honors
- International Fantasy Award (1951)
Membres
Converses
George R Stewart's Earth Abides a Post-apocalyptic Literature (juliol 2010)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 44
- També de
- 7
- Membres
- 6,278
- Popularitat
- #3,908
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 157
- ISBN
- 111
- Llengües
- 7
- Preferit
- 11
Those human characters are, by traditional literary standards, given only slightly more development. They have character traits and motivations, both limited in number and very sparely drawn, but not personalities. Over the course of the story, we see them almost exclusively in the context of doing their jobs, and learn virtually nothing about their larger lives or inner thoughts and emotions.
All of this serves the central theme of Stewart's novel, which is the collision of natural systems (the storm) and the human systems that it touches: the weather bureau, the airlines and railroads, the power and telephone companies, the flood-control works that regulate the flow of the rivers, and the highway department charged with keeping the mountain roads over the Sierra Nevada open and passable. The drama in the story lies in the humans who operate these systems straining their minds, bodies, and spirits to the breaking point to keep them operating in spite of the storm . . . or at least to keep its disruption of them, and thus its effect on people's lives, to an absolute minimum.
Stewart's writing about atmospheric phenomena, though it occasionally tips into the self-consciously grandiose, remains surprisingly gripping, and his juggling of multiple plot lines and sets of characters is masterful. It's a thoughtful reflection on the way that fragility and resilience coexist in the technological systems that make modern life possible. It's also a look into the minds of the workers whose unseen labor (both physical and mental) keeps those systems operating.
[Storm] not an easy sell to someone you don't know well, but if anything I wrote above intrigues you, it's well worth tracking down.… (més)