One Step in the Clouds: The Sierra Club Omnibus of Mountaineering Fiction - Hardcover

9780871566386: One Step in the Clouds: The Sierra Club Omnibus of Mountaineering Fiction
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A collection of mountaineering fiction includes contributions from Guy de Maupassant, Anne Sauvy, Greg Child, John Menlove Edwards, M. John Harrison, and Elizabeth Coxhead

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This collection of 31 short stories, one play, four novels and two novellas--all thematically dedicated to mountaineering-- is highly diverse: adventure, folklore, science fiction and crime fiction all are represented. And there are some ripping yarns. For example, the working-class English heroine in Elizabeth Coxhead's melodramatic novel One Green Bottle attains great heights as a climber and as a person, then falls, metaphorically, in an infuriating conclusion. Rand, the elite climber in James Salter's excellent Solo Faces , provides a chilling, near-paradigmatic model of a superstar. In David Harris's Vortex , innocent lovers become drug runners by circumstance, and violent by necessity; the story has "major motion picture" written all over it. It's regrettable, though, that the plots of most of the fiction override and trivialize the sport, and that nowhere in this hefty volume is there an adequate explanation of what drives men to climb mountains. "That we have survived again is the only victory," declares the hero of Roger Ubank's North Wall . "There is nothing else." It would seem that machismo lies at the core of mountaineering--not an interesting or penetrating inference. 75,000 first printing.
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  • PublisherRandom House, Inc.
  • Publication date1991
  • ISBN 10 0871566389
  • ISBN 13 9780871566386
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages1056
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