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Marking The Sparrows Fall: The Making of the American West - Softcover

Stegner, Wallace

 
9780805062960: Marking The Sparrows Fall: The Making of the American West
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0805062963 ISBN 13: 9780805062960
Verlag: Picador Paper, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

"The true masterpiece . . . Among the finest work about the West and its meanings . . . Everyone who lives in the West, or loves it, should pay attention to Stegner."
-Los Angeles Times

Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known novella and several of Stegner's best-known essays on the American West. Seventy-five percent of the contents of this body of work is published here for the first time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of a dozen novels and as many works of nonfiction, including Angle of Repose, The Spectator Bird, and Crossing to Safety. The founder and director of the graduate writing program at Stanford University, he spent much of his life in northern California and Vermont.

Page Stegner (1937-2017) was the author of many books. For twenty-eight years he served as Professor of American Literature and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Marking the Sparrow's Fall is Wallace Stegner's biggest collection and the first since his death. His son, Page, has selected fifteen essays that have never before been published in any book and placed them alongside Wallace Stegner's most powerful pieces in the book's three nonfiction parts: Home Ground (memory), Testimony (defense of the earth), and Inheritance (history). The fourth section of the book is devoted to a magnificent little-known novella, "Genesis". As Page Stegner writes of the collection, "It is as complete and comprehensive a statement as we are ever likely to have about what it means to be a westerner, about what it means to know ourselves as 'a part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.'"

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Verlag
Picador Paper
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805062963
ISBN 13 
9780805062960
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
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