![]() ![]() ![]() The largest body, a dozen stories scattered throughout the collection, enough to make a fair-sized book in and of themselves, are the hard-edged and utterly unsentimental tales of the life Stegner knew (and knew of) as a farm boy in Saskatchewan, a life that demanded as much as a man had and more. The stories in this large and various collection range across all the years of that lifetime and the places the author has known. A long life, then (born 1909), and a long, productive and distinguished literary career. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Angle of Repose (1971) and the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird (1976). Since then he has published 14 other works of fiction, 10 books of nonfiction, and has edited The Letters of Bernard DeVoto (1975). Stegner's first book, the novel Remembering Laughter, was published in 1937. ![]() HERE WE HAVE 31 short stories, gathered out of Wallace Stegner's two earlier collections, The Women on the Wall (1950) and The City of the Living (1956), together with some others that, in various forms, found a place in several of his novels including, most recently, Recapitulation (1979). ![]()
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