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Wallace Stegner
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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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.
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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…
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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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…
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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 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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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…
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…
A biography which brings together two exemplary American men of letters.
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…
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…
Originally published in the United States by Doubleday & Company, Inc., a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1976 –Title page verso.
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.
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…
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.
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…
First published as The preacher and the slave.
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…
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…
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…
An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
Wallace Stegner,Page Stegner
Text only from the book by photographer Eliot Porter first published by Dutton, 1981.
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
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.
An account of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of Western letters and the early environmental 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.
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Zeese Papanikolas
Stands for a whole generation of immigrant workers who, in the years before World War I, found themselves caught between the realities of industrial America and their aspirations for a…
An intimate portrait of a man confronting his life’s experiences in light of his past.
A book about the West (USA) - its landscapes, writers and place in the American imagination by one of America’s greatest writers, historians and environmentalists.
Lynn Elizabeth Cook
This collection of essays reveals the thoughts of a Native American feminist intellectual. A poet and literary scholar, Elizabeth Cook-Lyyn grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in…
Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty, drifting from town to town and from state to state, seeking their fortune or at least a…
Don Moser
""The Peninsula: A Story Of The Olympic Country In Words And Photographs"" by Don Moser is a beautifully crafted book that takes readers on a journey through the stunning Olympic…
Wallace Earle Stegner
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1971, Angle of Repose has also been selected by the editorial board of the Modern Library as one of…
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1955.
Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound…
