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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Wallace StegnerPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Vintage Books Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.238kg ISBN: 9780525435433ISBN 10: 0525435433 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 08 August 2017 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1 Overture: The Sound of Mountain Water 2 The Rediscovery of America: 1946 3 Packhorse Paradise 4 Navajo Rodeo 5 San Juan and Glen Canyon 6 Glen Canyon Submersus 7 The Land of Enchantment 8 Coda: Wilderness Letter Part II 1 At Home in the Fields of the Lord 2 Born a Square 3 History, Myth,a nd the Western Writer 4 On the Writing of History 5 Three Samples: a The West Synthetic: Bret Harte b The West Authentic: Willa Cather c The West Emphatic: Bernard DeVoto 6 The Book and the Great CommunityReviewsStegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation. --Choice Like Faulkner, Stegner sired a stable of writers fired with an ambition to chronicle the region and force upon the nation a new and 'demythologized view of the West. --The Weekly Standard Stegner pleads for a Western literature that will meaningfully link past and present. Easygoing essays by a writer of venerable and popular reputation. --Kirkus Reviews Stegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation. --Choice Like Faulkner, Stegner sired a stable of writers fired with an ambition to chronicle the region and force upon the nation a new and 'demythologized view of the West. --The Weekly Standard Stegner pleads for a Western literature that will meaningfully link past and present. Easygoing essays by a writer of venerable and popular reputation. --Kirkus Reviews Stegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation. --Choice Like Faulkner, Stegner sired a stable of writers fired with an ambition to chronicle the region and force upon the nation a new and 'demythologized view of the West. --The Weekly Standard Stegner pleads for a Western literature that will meaningfully link past and present. Easygoing essays by a writer of venerable and popular reputation. --Kirkus Reviews Author InformationWallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Stories was published in 1990. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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