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Wallace Stegner
An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner—a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past.Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.
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Author
Wallace Stegner
Pages
672
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2014-11-04
ISBN
1101872764 9781101872765
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"I listened to the audiobook. Stopped at Leadville: Chapter 1.<br/><br/>I couldn’t really get into this book as I was working so I went in and out of focus when listening. The narrator was great, he had a good voice so that wasn’t the problem.<br/><br/>Out of what I did catch here and there, I guess it was the man Lyman who’s in a wheelchair chronicling and reading records about his grandparents and where they lived, what they did, and where they would move. Lyman would do it with the help of his sister Shelley who took care of the transcribing and typing on the typewriter.<br/><br/>I thought his grandfather was romantic with his grandmother at one point and made me wish I had that romantic gesture he did with her.<br/><br/>But other than that, guess this book wasn’t really my cup of tea."
L H
"Very much worth it! Stegner's way with words leaves me stunned-- rereading sentences or paragraphs just to bask in them for awhile longer."
Gloria Brandt
"I've read this novel several times now, and I'm always amazed by what I've missed before. "
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