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Marking the Sparrow's Fall

The Making of the American West

Author: Wallace Stegner; Page Stegner, Editor

Marking the Sparrow's Fall
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Marking the Sparrow's Fall

Marking the Sparrow's Fall

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Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant....
Page Count
384
On Sale
09/15/1999

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Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known novella and several of Stegner's best-known essays on the American West. Seventy-five percent of the contents of this body of work is published here for the first time.

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Holt Paperbacks

ISBN

9780805062960

In The News

“A brilliant collection of the little-known and classic prose that have established Wallace Stegner as "one of the greatest contemporary writers.” —The Washington Post

“The true masterpiece...Among the finest work about the West and its meanings...Everyone who lives in the West, or loves it, should pay attention to Stegner.” —Caroline Fraser, Los Angeles Times (Best Non-Fiction selection 1998)

“[A] stellar collection...Those who already know his work will welcome Marking the Sparrow's Fall. Those who don't couldn't ask for a better introduction.” —George Scialabba, The Boston Globe)

“No one has written more or better about the West, past and present, than Wallace Stegner.” —Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today

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Marking the Sparrow's Fall

Marking the Sparrow's Fall

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