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Wallace Stegner
Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know…
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A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the…
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Wallace Stegner’s boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of…
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This collection shows that Wallace Stegner's work, however flawed, remains a useful tool for assessing the past, present, and future of the American West.
Wallace Stegner, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize, was the author of 13 novels and five collections of short stories, as well as the founder of Stanford University’s creative writing…
Philip L. Fradkin
Reveals the Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy - a generous teacher, conservationist, and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and character. This title chronicles Stegner’s formative years, from…
Robert Steensma
A recreation of the 1920s and 1930s Salt Lake City from Wallace Stegner’s youth based on archival photographs, quotations from Stegner’s writings, and interpretive essays.
Ramamurthy Revathi
The novels of Wallace Stegner deal with Man in the male-dominated West. The first chapter, focuses on the distinction between the popular Westerns and the western novels which have literary…
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Jackson J. Benson
In a career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) emerged as the greatest contemporary author of the American West - writing more than two dozen works of history…
A biography which brings together two exemplary American men of letters.
Presents a group of stories reflecting people as well as situations. This book, written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, includes eighteen stories that move from women to…
A New England village, untouched by history since the American Revolution, is the unquiet arena containing, but just barely, the aloof natives and the summer residents.
Sabrina Castro, an attractive woman with a strong New England heritage, is married to a wealthy, older California physician who no longer fulfills her dreams. An almost accidental misstep leads…
In this moving sequel to Big Rock Candy Mountain , Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City for a family funeral and instead encounters the ghosts of his past.
Award-winning and bestselling author Wallace Stegner takes on the hippy generation in a novel of crackling vividness .–The New York Times Book Review. A bearded young cultist invades the lives…
A richly textured collection of essays and a novella, the first works by an acclaimed author to be published since his death, illustrates the American West in a authentic, thought-provoking…
First published as The preacher and the slave.
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless…
Literary agent Joe Allston, is now retired and, in his own words, just killing time until time gets around to killing me. His parents and his only son are long…
Originally published in the United States by Doubleday & Company, Inc., a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1976 –Title page verso.
Written over a 25-year period, during a time when the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, the essays, memoirs, letters and speeches contained in The Sound…
Margaret Stuart tries to ignore her husband’s gradual decline into alcoholism, but when her sister, Elspeth, comes to live with them, a relationship develops between Margaret’s sister and husband.
A collection of 31 short stories from one of America’s master storytellers. Here are tales of young love and older wisdom, of the order and consistency of the natural world…
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The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes…
Bo Mason and his wife and two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair; drifting from town to town, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune. Stegner has…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death - but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison…
In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in…
Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook. This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major…
Sabrina Castro, a New England woman married to an older, California doctor, attempts to come to terms with a marriage that no longer has meaning for her.
Stegner brings together eight previously uncollected essays–including four never-before-published pieces–on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. In this unique collection he addresses every aspect of fiction writing from the writer’s…
Wallace Stegner,Page Stegner
Text only from the book by photographer Eliot Porter first published by Dutton, 1981.
An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where…
Megan Riley McGilchrist
In this book, McGilchrist establishes a link between the western American writers Wallace Stegner and Cormac McCarthy. Her point of connection is the treatment of landscape and nature in their…
John L. Thomas
An account of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of Western letters and the early environmental movement - Wallace Stegner and Bernard Devoto.
This account is an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of Western letters and the early enviromental movement - Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.
David Gessner
An homage to the West and to two great writers who set the standard for all who celebrate and defend it.
An intimate portrait of a man confronting his life’s experiences in light of his past.