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(0)Wallace Stegner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this affecting semi-autobiographical novel, the author 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. Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their 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 out his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Here at last are the collected stories of one of America's most distinguished and admired writers. In addition to his honored works (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners), Stegner is widely known as one of America's finest teachers of writing. He has taught at Harvard, Wisconsin, and Iowa and has lectured widely.
14) Recapitulation
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In this moving sequel to "Big Rock Candy Mountain", Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City for a family funeral and instead encounters the ghosts of his past.
16) A shooting star
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Sabrina Castro, a New England woman married to an older, California doctor, attempts to come to terms with a marriage that no longer has meaning for her
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-nine-year-old Margaret Stuart is happy to have her sister Elspeth come to live with her and her husband Alec on their prosperous Iowa farm, but when the friendship between Elspeth and Alec ripens into passion, it changes the course of the rest of all their lives.
