Among the novels are, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943 Joe Hill, 1950 All The Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal) Angle of Repose, 1972 (Pulitzer Prize) The Spectator Bird, (National Book Award), 1977 Recapitulation, 1979 Collected Stories, 1990, and Crossing to Safety, 1987. Wallace Stegner was born on Februin Lake Mills, Iowa. 'It is a book about what one man has taught us, by his example, about the accountable life a book about what it means to be a responsible, loving, thoughtful, constituent of the human race. In The Geography of Hope, A Tribute to Wallace Stegner, written by his friends, colleages, and his son, Page Stegner, we sense a far greater resonance than a mere collection of memorial applause. Several of the stories have been reshaped and interpolated into such novels as Wolf Willow and The Big Rock Candy Mountain.Ĭopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.Wallace Stegner once said about his writing, 'In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.' Stegner's prose has inspired generations of Americans to seek their own truth. Best of all is the slicing wit of 'Field Guide to the Western Birds,' in which a curmudgeon acidly comments on the petulant antics of a would-be virtuoso.

The stories are not arranged chronologically: Stegner's dark, voyeuristic peek into the lives of women awaiting letters from men serving in WW II gives way to an account of a bloodthirsty boyhood on the hot, flat frontier of a Saskatchewan farm. Settings range from Stegner's native Canada to Utah, California and Vermont-all memorable places in the author's life. These 31 classic stories record much of the cultural climate of 20th-century America, its West in particular, constituting, as the NBA and Pulitzer Prize-winning author affectionately notes, not an autobiography, but 'a sort of personal record.' As combined here, the tales are a window onto a vivid American past that is as focused as a Norman Rockwell painting, although far more astringent and hardly as wholesome.

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