Wolf Willow
Autor Wallace Stegneren Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2000
Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. This Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes a new introductory essay by Page Stegner.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141185019
ISBN-10: 0141185015
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0141185015
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
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Cuprins
Introduction by Page Stegner
Suggestions for Further Reading
I. The Question Mark in the Circle
1. The Question Mark in the Circle
2. History Is a Pontoon Bridge
3. The Dump Ground
II. Preparation for a Civilization
1. First Look
2. The Divide
3. Horse and Gun
4. Half World: The Metis
5. Company of Adventurers
6. Last of the Exterminators
7. The Medicine Line
8. Law in a Red Coat
9. Capital of an Unremembered Past
III. The Whitemud River Range
1. Specification for a Hero
2. Genesis
3. Carrion Spring
IV. Town and Country
1. The Town Builders
2. Whitemud, Saskatchewan
3. The Garden of the World
4. The Making of Paths
Epilogue: False-Front Athens
Acknowledgments
Suggestions for Further Reading
I. The Question Mark in the Circle
1. The Question Mark in the Circle
2. History Is a Pontoon Bridge
3. The Dump Ground
II. Preparation for a Civilization
1. First Look
2. The Divide
3. Horse and Gun
4. Half World: The Metis
5. Company of Adventurers
6. Last of the Exterminators
7. The Medicine Line
8. Law in a Red Coat
9. Capital of an Unremembered Past
III. The Whitemud River Range
1. Specification for a Hero
2. Genesis
3. Carrion Spring
IV. Town and Country
1. The Town Builders
2. Whitemud, Saskatchewan
3. The Garden of the World
4. The Making of Paths
Epilogue: False-Front Athens
Acknowledgments
Notă biografică
Wallace
Stegner
was
the
author
of,
among
other
works
of
fiction,Remembering
Laughter(1973);The
Big
Rock
Candy
Mountain(1943);Joe
Hill(1950);All
the
Little
Live
Things(1967,
Commonwealth
Club
Gold
Medal);A
Shooting
Star(1961);Angle
of
Repose(1971,
Pulitzer
Prize);The
Spectator
Bird(1976,
National
Book
Award);Recapitulation(1979);Crossing
to
Safety(1987);
andCollected
Stories(1990).
His
nonfiction
includesBeyond
the
Hundredth
Meridian(1954);The
Sound
of
Mountain
Water(essays,
1969);The
Uneasy
Chair:
A
Biography
of
Bernard
deVoto(1964);American
Places(with
Page
Stegner,
1981);
andWhere
the
Bluebird
Sings
to
the
Lemonade
Springs:
Living
and
Writing
in
the
West(1992).
Three
short
stories
have
won
O.Henry
prizes,
and
in
1980
he
received
the
Robert
Kirsch
Award
from
theLos
Angeles
Timesfor
his
lifetime
literary
achievements.
Recenzii
Beautiful
and
moving...In
many
ways
the
best
of
all
the
good
books
Stegner
has
written.