This tour-de-force of american literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West. Joe allston is a cantankerous, retired literary agent who is, 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. He has passed through life as a spectator, Ruth, before retreating to the woods of California in the 1970s with only his wife, by his side. His job, trafficking the talent of others, has not been his choice.

When an unexpected postcard from a long-lost friend arrives, Allston returns to the journals of a trip he has taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace where he once sought a link with his past. Vintage. Uncovering this history floods allston with memories, both grotesque and poignant, and finally vindicates him of his past and lays bare that Joe Allston has never been quite spectator enough.

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Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him. 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, together with her engineer husband, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before.

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The Big Rock Candy Mountain Penguin Classics

In this affecting narrative, wallace Stegner portrays over three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century. Angle of Repose. A defining masterpiece by the “dean of western writers” the new york Times and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair.

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Crossing to Safety Modern Library Classics

For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. H. Brimming with wisdom” by howard frank mosher in the washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century.

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All the Little Live Things Contemporary American Fiction

Modern Library. Joe allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! Angle of Repose. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Ruth, Allston and his wife, have left the coast for a California retreat.

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Remembering Laughter

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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. From the “dean of western writers” the new york times and the pulitzer prize winning–author of angle of repose and crossing to Safety, the Grand Canyon, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest.

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Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was. Modern Library. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. Angle of Repose.

The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West

Compositions delve into the post-world war II boom that brought the Rocky Mountain West--from Montana and Idaho to Utah and Nevada--into the modern age. A book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner. The essays, geography, and speeches collected in The Sound of Mountain Water encompass memoir, history, nature conservation, letters, memoirs, and literature.

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. A final section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past and the diminished present, and analyzesd the difficulties facing any contemporary Western writer. Written over a period of twenty-five years, an affirmation of the hope emobided therein, The Sound of Mountain Water is a hymn to the Western landscape, and by a writer and thinker who will always hold a unique position in modern American letters, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and a careful and rich investigation of the West's complex legacy.

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Recapitulation

For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood, sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect. But the realities of the present recede in the face of the ghosts of his past.

Modern Library. Angle of Repose. As he makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, the friend who drew him into the respectable world of which he so craved to be a part, we enter with him on an intensely personal and painful inner pilgrimage: we meet the father who darkened his childhood, the mother whose support was both redeeming and embarrassing, and the woman he nearly married.

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Collected Stories Penguin Classics

With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating why the author is acclaimed as one of America's master storytellers.

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Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics

Wallace stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Angle of Repose. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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