Marking the sparrow's fall : Wallace Stegner's American West

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Marking the sparrow's fall : Wallace Stegner's American West / edited with an introduction by Page Stegner.

Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993 (Author). Stegner, Page. (Added Author).

Summary:

Marking the Sparrow's Fall is Wallace Stegner's biggest collection and the first since his death in 1993. His son, Page, has selected fifteen essays that have never before been published in any book and placed them alongside Wallace Stegner's most powerful pieces in the book's three nonfiction parts: Home Ground (memory), Testimony (defense of the earth), and Inheritance (history). The fourth section of the book is devoted to a magnificent little-known novella, Genesis.

Record details

ISBN: 0805044647
ISBN: 9780805044645
ISBN: 0805062963
ISBN: 9780805062960
Physical Description: xix, 359 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "A John Macrae book."
Formatted Contents Note:: Foreword: I sing of America -- HOME GROUND : Child of the far frontier -- The making of paths -- That Great Falls year -- At home in the fields of the Lord -- Xanadu by the Salt Flats -- The world's strangest sea -- Lake Powell -- Back roads river -- Back roads of the American West -- Why I like the West -- TESTIMONY : Wilderness letter -- It all began with conservation -- The best idea we ever had -- Qualified homage to Thoreau -- Living on our principal -- Bernard DeVoto -- Conservation equals survival -- Now, if I ruled the world ... -- INHERITANCE : The twilight of self-reliance --Living dry -- The Rocky Mountain West -- Land : America's history teacher -- GENESIS : Genesis.