A retired, ailing history professor, Lyman Ward, has been deserted by his wife. To distract himself from pain, both physical and emotional, he embarks on the project of editing the private papers of his grandmother, an artist and writer married to a geologist. Ward recounts the story of his grandparents' life juxtaposed with his own--specifically, ...
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 of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ".-- Books of the Southwest.
In this recreation of southern Saskatchewan from 1914 to 1920, Wallace Stegner combines his own memories with history and fictional techniques to create a community, a landscape, and an unforgettable childhood.
'In an age of explicit sex scenes and of male-female hates and struggles, it is wonderful to open this book...Despite the flapper fashions and references to prohibition and old Fords, one comes out aware of universal, human feelings that have nothing to do with time - present, future, or past' - "Christian Science Monitor". 'Recapitulation is rich ...
This novel chronicles the events in a crucial day in the lives of two couples who have been friends for a long time: Sid Lang, a fiercely ambitious man, and his controlling wife Charity who is dying of cancer; and Sally Morgan and her husband Larry, whose happily dependent relationship is based partly on Sally's lameness.
Joe Allston, the narrator of Stegner's earlier (1967) novel, ALL THE LITTLE LIVE THINGS, finds the journal he kept on a trip to Denmark 20 years earlier, which describes his attraction to a wealthy Danish woman. He reads the journal to his wife, and her response makes it clear how rich and vital their marriage has been. Winner of the National Book ...
In 16 graceful essays, Stegner writes about his perennial theme, the American West--its culture, landscape, and literature, and the ways that they interconnect.
The novel that confirmed Wallace Stegner's position as an important American writer is based on his own family history. Bo and Elsa Mason and their two sons set out to conquer the West, pursuing the American dream of wealth and success--the Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Two newcomers invade the life of Joe Allston, a 64-year-old rancher in California. One is a manipulative hippie who wants to camp on his land--a request Joe grants because his son died three years earlier, an event about which Joe still feels some guilt. The other is a new neighbor, the lovely Marian, who has a tragic secret. Stegner's novel ...
Stegner's well-crafted, often nostalgic stories are definitely traditional in style--most were written before 1950, when he gave up short fiction for novels and nonfiction. This volume includes such masterly works as "The Sweetness of the Twisted Apples" and "The City of the Living," as well as the short novel GENESIS.
Margaret and Alec Stuart have a happy marriage despite Alec's reliance on the bottle. When Margaret's sister comes to stay with them and falls in love with their thriving Iowa farm, things change, and Margaret finds herself tested by a cruel series of events. Stegner wrote REMEMBERING LAUGHTER in response to a 1936 Little, Brown contest offering ...
In Stegner's 1961 novel, a wealthy and beautiful but flighty woman leaves her older doctor-husband for a journey down a path of anguish and degradation.
Wallace Stegner, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, was a great writer. As an author, historian, teacher, and environmentalist, he influenced countless prominent individuals during his long life. Showcasing some of those relationships, these letters (written between 1933 and 1993) cover a broad range of topics, including literature, history, ...
The first collection published since his death in 1993 contains 15 never-before-published essays by Stegner, a little-known novella, and his most powerful and best-known essays on the American West.
John Wesley Powell's arid lands report was the first to argue that the American West could not support a conventional system of agriculture and that its lands could not sustain unlimited development. He recognized that water was a more precious resource than land, that rainfall could never support agriculture in the region, and that controlled ...
In 16 graceful essays, Stegner writes about his perennial theme, the American West--its culture, landscape, and literature, and the ways that they interconnect.
Wallace Stegner writes a biography of his fellow Western writer, Pulitzer Prize-winner Bernard de Voto. Among his other achievements, De Voto was a celebrated Mark Twain scholar and for many years wrote the influential "Easy Chair" column in Harper's magazine.
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