Author(s): Wallace Earle Stegner

Fiction

In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. 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 Americaas master storytellers. BACKCOVER: aExemplary stories . . . The reader of Stegneras 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.a
"aLos Angeles Times"