{"title":"Books by Wallace Stegner","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780141394954","title":"Crossing to Safety","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly find they have much in common: Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the English department at the University of Wisconsin. Immediately a lifelong friendship is born, which becomes increasingly complex as they share decades of love, loyalty, vulnerability and conflict. Written from the perspective of the aging Larry Morgan,\u003ci\u003eCrossing to Safety \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful and deeply moving exploration of the struggle of four people to come to terms with the trials and tragedies of everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction by Jane Smiley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize), 1971; The Spectator Bird (National Book award), 1977; Recapitulation, 1979. Three of his short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His collected stories were published in 1990.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Smiley is the author of many novels and works of non-fiction, including, most recently, \"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel\", about the history and anatomy of the novel. Her most recent novel is \"Good Faith\". She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for \"A Thousand Acres\", and was shortlisted for The Orange Prize in 2001 for Horse Heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201457455282,"sku":"9780141394954","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141394954.jpg?v=1786032778"},{"product_id":"9780141188003","title":"Angle of Repose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn iconic novel of the American West \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e— a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother – now long dead – who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. But as he explores his grandmother's history, Lyman's great quest also leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, \u003ci\u003eAngle of Repose \u003c\/i\u003eis Wallace Stegner’s masterpiece and a fascinating glimpse into frontier-era America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an Introduction by JACKSON J. 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Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the hotel business, in new farmland and eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this affecting narrative, Wallace Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, \u003ci\u003eRemembering Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e (1973); \u003ci\u003eJoe Hill\u003c\/i\u003e (1950); \u003ci\u003eAll the Little Live Things\u003c\/i\u003e (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); \u003ci\u003eA Shooting Star\u003c\/i\u003e (1961); \u003ci\u003eAngle of Repose\u003c\/i\u003e (1971, Pulitzer Prize); \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator Bird\u003c\/i\u003e (1976, National Book Award); \u003ci\u003eRecapitulation \u003c\/i\u003e(1979); \u003ci\u003eCrossing to Safety\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); and \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). His nonfiction includes \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Hundredth Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e (1954); \u003ci\u003eWolf Willow\u003c\/i\u003e (1963); \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Mountain Water\u003c\/i\u003e (essays, 1969); \u003ci\u003eThe Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto\u003c\/i\u003e (1964); \u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e (with Page Stegner, 1981); and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West \u003c\/i\u003e(1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e for his lifetime literary achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224863486325,"sku":"9780141392349","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141392349_8a656524-d43b-47dd-b12b-c220b78b79f5.jpg?v=1786011248"},{"product_id":"the-spectator-bird","title":"The Spectator Bird","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel \u003ci\u003eAll the Little Live Things\u003c\/i\u003e, is now retired and, in his own words, 'just killing time until time gets around to killing me.' His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from an old friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he and his wife had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace, where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, \u003ci\u003eRemembering Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e (1973); \u003ci\u003eThe Big Rock Candy Mountain \u003c\/i\u003e(1943); \u003ci\u003eJoe Hill\u003c\/i\u003e (1950); \u003ci\u003eAll the Little Live Things\u003c\/i\u003e (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); \u003ci\u003eA Shooting Star\u003c\/i\u003e (1961); \u003ci\u003eAngle of Repose\u003c\/i\u003e (1971, Pulitzer Prize); \u003ci\u003eRecapitulation \u003c\/i\u003e(1979); \u003ci\u003eCrossing to Safety\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); and \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). 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Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e for his lifetime literary achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466683425141,"sku":"9780141392325","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141392325.jpg?v=1785654742"},{"product_id":"wolf-willow","title":"Wolf Willow","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Enchanting, heartrending and eminently enviable'  Vladimir Nabokov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded fro 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applies childhood remembrances and adult reflection to the history of the region to create this wise and enduring portrait of pioneer community existing in the verge of a modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stegner has summarized the frontier story and interpreted it as only one who was part of it could'  \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466684244341,"sku":"9780141392363","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141392363.jpg?v=1785654743"},{"product_id":"collected-stories-1","title":"Collected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e'This is the age for the short story. 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The reader of Stegner's writing is immediately reminded of an essential America ... a distinct place, a unique people, a common history, and a shared heritage remembered as only Stegner can'  \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466685161845,"sku":"9780141392387","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141392387.jpg?v=1785654744"},{"product_id":"all-the-little-live-things","title":"All the Little Live Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Timely and timeless ... Will hold any reader to its last haunting page'  \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe early life of Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, features in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga and sex; and Marian Catlin, an attractive young woman whose otherworldly innocence is far more appealing - and far more dangerous. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e captures the twenties and yet transcends them. \u003ci\u003eAll the Little Live Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a comparable achievement for the sixties ... 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