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Stegner Wallace
Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery -- personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past.
Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)
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Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.
It's deceptively simple: two bright young couples meet during the Depression and form an instant and lifelong friendship. "How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these?" Larry Morgan, a successful novelist and the narrator of the story, poses that question many years after he and his wife, Sally, have befriended the vibrant, wealthy, and often troubled Sid and Charity Lang. "Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish?" It's not here. What is here is just as fascinating, just as compelling, as touching, and as tragic. Crossing to Safety is about loyalty and survival in its most everyday form--the need to create bonds and the urge to tear them apart. Thirty-four years after their first meeting, when Larry and Sally are called back to the Langs' summer home in Vermont, it's as if for a final showdown. How has this friendship defined them? What is its legacy? Stegner offer answers in those small, perfectly rendered moments that make up lives "as quiet as these"--and as familiar as our own. --Sara Nickerson
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses 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. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was. "This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." —Ivan Doig
The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Peguin Classics)
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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 Bo seeks out his fortune-in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. In this affecting narrative, Wallace Stegner portrays over three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.
All the Little Live Things (Contemporary American Fiction)
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Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and sex; and Marian Catlin, an attractive young woman whose otherworldly innocence is far more appealing—and far more dangerous.
Collected Stories (Penguin Classics)
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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 this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating why the author is acclaimed as one of America's master storytellers.
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MARGIN NOTES-Videographers put their necks on the line - Snowmass Sun Online News
Snowmass Sun Online News, Colorado - May 23, 8566
MARGIN NOTES-Videographers put their necks on the lineFestival director David Holbrooke quotes the great Western writer Wallace Stegner, who would have turned 100 this year. “The time has come to search the map for better possibilities,” Stegner wrote, “to strike out in new directions.
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ARTISTS pARTner with students - Planet Jackson Hole
Planet Jackson Hole, WY - May 23, 8542
ARTISTS pARTner with studentsOn the following day, Trimble will also give a writing workshop based off of his study of Wallace Stegner, and the connection betwen story and place,10 am to noon, Saturday, Teton County Library; free. 733-2164, odoherty@tclib.org.
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Paving Wilderness: Peril in Utah's Book Cliffs - PlanetSave.com
PlanetSave.com, CA - May 23, 6235
Paving Wilderness: Peril in Utah's Book CliffsBy attempting to tame the untamed, the wild, we are, in turn, taming ourselves; for “we are a wild species…nobody ever tamed or domesticated or scientifically bred us” (Wallace Stegner, “Coda: Wilderness Letter,” 1960). And I, for one, refuse to live
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Man-Child in the Promised Land
American Spectator - May 22, 2009
Wallace Stegner wrote about him in his book Mormon Country: "What Everett Ruess was after was beauty, and he conceived beauty in pretty romantic terms….If we laugh at Everett Ruess we shall have to laugh at John Muir, because there was little Everett Ruess: Lost and found in the Desert Southwest
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Zion Canyon song cycle succeeds in making the local universal - Desert Valley Times
Desert Valley Times, UT - May 23, 8252
Zion Canyon song cycle succeeds in making the local universalI recalled a sentence from a Wallace Stegner essay where he wrote: "No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends or monuments." If ever a place merited a series of songs,
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