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| Wolf Willow: A History, A Story and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier | | | Author: | Wallace Stegner | | ISBN: | 0141185015 | | Format: | Handover | | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | |  |  |  | | | | | | | Book Review | | | |
Vladimir Nabokov
Enchanting, heartrending, and eminently enviable.
Walter Van Tilberg Clarck
Beautiful and moving...In many ways the best of all the good books Stegner has written.
Book Description
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.
About the Author
Wallace Stegner (1903-1993) was the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, including the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird (1976) and Crossing to Safety. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
Page Stegner, Wallace Stegner's son, is the author of many books including, Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West.
Wolf Willow: A History, A Story and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Classics Series) FROM THE PUBLISHER 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.
"Enchanting, heartrending, and eminently enviable."—Vladimir Nabokov
"Beautiful and moving ...In many ways the best of all the good books Stegner has written"—Walter Van Tilberg Clarck
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