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The Story
As author of the āWilderness Letterā and major award-winning novels, histories, essays, and biographies, Wallace Stegner worked throughout his life to protect western lands, places, and peoples. His writing was and remains an inspiration and guide for countless people attempting to cultivate a sense of place in the American West while tacking their way through uncertain times.
This book tells the story of Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, durĀing its transition from the Valley of Heartās Delight (known for its rolling hills and orchards) to Silicon Valley. In this thoughtful study of the novels Stegner wrote in CaliforĀniaāincluding his Pulitzer Prizeāwinning Angle of Reposeāreaders are invited to consider with Stegner what the practice of place requires in the American West. Specialists in the literature and history of the American West will find new analyses of Stegner and his influential work. Other readers will be guided through Stegnerās work in concrete and accessible prose, and anyone who has longed for home and a sense of place will encounter a powerful, beautiful, and at times tragic attempt to build and preserve it.
This book tells the story of Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, durĀing its transition from the Valley of Heartās Delight (known for its rolling hills and orchards) to Silicon Valley. In this thoughtful study of the novels Stegner wrote in CaliforĀniaāincluding his Pulitzer Prizeāwinning Angle of Reposeāreaders are invited to consider with Stegner what the practice of place requires in the American West. Specialists in the literature and history of the American West will find new analyses of Stegner and his influential work. Other readers will be guided through Stegnerās work in concrete and accessible prose, and anyone who has longed for home and a sense of place will encounter a powerful, beautiful, and at times tragic attempt to build and preserve it.
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As author of the āWilderness Letterā and major award-winning novels, histories, essays, and biographies, Wallace Stegner worked throughout his life to protect western lands, places, and peoples. His writing was and remains an inspiration and guide for countless people attempting to cultivate a sense of place in the American West while tacking their way through uncertain times.
This book tells the story of Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, durĀing its transition from the Valley of Heartās Delight (known for its rolling hills and orchards) to Silicon Valley. In this thoughtful study of the novels Stegner wrote in CaliforĀniaāincluding his Pulitzer Prizeāwinning Angle of Reposeāreaders are invited to consider with Stegner what the practice of place requires in the American West. Specialists in the literature and history of the American West will find new analyses of Stegner and his influential work. Other readers will be guided through Stegnerās work in concrete and accessible prose, and anyone who has longed for home and a sense of place will encounter a powerful, beautiful, and at times tragic attempt to build and preserve it.
This book tells the story of Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, durĀing its transition from the Valley of Heartās Delight (known for its rolling hills and orchards) to Silicon Valley. In this thoughtful study of the novels Stegner wrote in CaliforĀniaāincluding his Pulitzer Prizeāwinning Angle of Reposeāreaders are invited to consider with Stegner what the practice of place requires in the American West. Specialists in the literature and history of the American West will find new analyses of Stegner and his influential work. Other readers will be guided through Stegnerās work in concrete and accessible prose, and anyone who has longed for home and a sense of place will encounter a powerful, beautiful, and at times tragic attempt to build and preserve it.
