![]() 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. ![]() 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. This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. 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. The item Collected stories of Wallace Stegner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. ![]() ![]() 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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