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  • Crossing to Safety

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Introduction by Terry Tempest WilliamsAfterword by T. H. WatkinsCalled a “magnificently crafted story . . . 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. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Spectator Bird

    Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "killing time before 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 a friend causes him to return to the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Angle of Repose

    Modern Classic

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 11 min

    Wallace Stegner’s uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian, who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Wolf Willow

    A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

    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 Willowbrings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.For more than seventy years, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Beyond the Hundredth Meridian

    John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

    From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling itIn Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • All the Little Live Things

    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. 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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • On Teaching and Writing Fiction

    Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-including four never-before-published pieces -on writing fiction and teaching creative writing. In this unique collection he addresses every ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Recapitulation

    A classic novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety. Here is the incredible, moving sequel to the bestselling Big Rock Candy Mountain by the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times).Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not for his aunt’s funeral, but to encounter the place he fled in bitterness forty-five years ago. A successful statesman and ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • The Uneasy Chair

    A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

    Bernard DeVoto was a wild intellectual from the Rocky Mountains, a rebel, iconoclast, and idealist who fled his stifling small town for the intellectual freedom and community of Harvard. While he settled eastward in his career as a novelist, professor, editor, historian, and critic, he continued to love, to a point of passion, western openness, freedom, and society.National Book Award– and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Sound of Mountain Water

    The Changing American West

    **A book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner."Stegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation." —Choice**The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in The Sound of Mountain Water encompass memoir, nature conservation, history, geography, and literature. Compositions delve ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Joe Hill

    A Biographical Novel

    Blending fact with fiction in this masterful historical novel, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill—the Wobbly bard and labor activist who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was executed for the alleged murder of a Salt Lake City businessman. Organizer, agitator, "Labor's Songster"—a rebel from the skin inwards, with an absolute ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Big Rock Candy Mountain

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 40 min

    Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Each peak of success takes him a little bit higher, and each valley sinks him ... Read more

    $34.99 USD