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Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)
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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 vibra... »
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Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West
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Born on an Iowa farm in 1909, Wallace Stegner was of the last generation to see the frontier West. His father, Stegner recalled in an autobiographical essay, was a land speculator who dragged his family from one dusty Western town to another in search of easy riches, and who "died broke and friendless in a fleabag hotel, having in his lifetime done mo... »
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A Sense of Place
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Drawing on his own childhood experience of rootlessness, moving about in western North America, Stegner digs deeply into our connection with place. Much of it is an account of personal history. From there he moves into a very touching analysis of living in the west and the impact we are having on the ecosystems of the west.Stegner's use of the l... »
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Big Sky
Fleeing an unhappy home life, young Boone Caudill heads west and meets up with Jim Deakins, an easy-going wanderer. In the company of seasoned trapper Di... »
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Angle of Repose
The long dream sequence in the last chapter contains at least one strong textual clue to its fanciful nature: Gaylord Perry (the Giants pitcher) was not ... »
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Recapitulation
When a real-life event pulls you back into The Past, where you didn't want to go, this is what happens. Though not an action-packed thriller, it is elegan... »
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The Sound of Mountain Water
Oh, what do we have here?
Oh, it's a cute, little, cute book.
Why, it's a collection of essays by noted writer Wallace Stegner!
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The Spectator Bird
Stegner has three narrative concerns, and the SB hits them all. There is Stegner's nearly vice grip hatred of the counter culture. There is the fascinat... »
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