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Stegner: Conversations on History and Literature

Stegner: Conversations on History and Literature

Wallace Earle Stegner

These informal interviews of Wallace Stegner, conducted by Richard Etulain reveal his thoughts and observations on our society and culture.
Because a Fire Was in My Head

Because a Fire Was in My Head

Lynn Stegner

Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels.
Fata morgana: a novel

Fata morgana: a novel

Lynn Stegner

A staid woman lives vicariously through an adventurous one in this tale of friendship.
Undertow: A Novel

Undertow: A Novel

Lynn Stegner

Anne McBain, a 27-year-old scientist, must learn to overcome the years of incest she experienced as a child
Recapitulation

Recapitulation

Wallace Stegner

In this profoundly moving book, Stegner has drawn an intimate portrait of a man understanding how his life has been shaped by experiences seemingly remote and inconsequential.
The Women on the Wall

The Women on the Wall

Wallace Earle Stegner

To these stories Wallace Stegner brings the same skill and thoughtfulness that won him the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird
For All the Obvious Reasons: And Other Stories

For All the Obvious Reasons: And Other Stories

Lynn Stegner

These are stories the reader can’t shake: A woman living a marital shadow-life realizes that her long compensating heart has begun to ominously decompensate.
Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner

Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner

Thirty-one stories from each period of the author's career deal with the consistency of the natural world and the disorder and contradictory nature of people
The Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wallace Stegner

In this affecting narrative, Wallace Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.
Second Growth

Second Growth

Wallace Earle Stegner

Their paths cross, happily or disastrously, in a book that seems too real to be fiction. As Wallace Stegner writes, the conflict on this particular frontier "has been reproduced in an endlessly changing pattern all over the United States."
The Spectator Bird

The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, Remembering Laughter (1973); The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star (1961); ...
A Shooting Star

A Shooting Star

Wallace Stegner

A Shooting star displays all the greatness of Wallace Stegner's storytelling powers.
Collected stories of Wallace Stegner

Collected stories of Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner

Presents a selection of stories that includes "He Who Spits at the Sky," "The Women of the Wall," "Pop Goes the Alley Cat," "The View from the Balcony," and "The Wolfer"
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work

Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work

Jackson J. Benson

Jackson J. Benson?s Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work is the first full-dress biography of this celebrated ?Dean of Western Writers.
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: A Triptych

Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: A Triptych

Lynn Stegner

... the porch I turned back and asked Gladys if she had ever heard of a Lara Casey. Because maybe Lara Casey could persuade him. "Lara Greenfield, you must mean." "Greenfield?" "Well, shore, been married twenty-five, maybe thirty years.
West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West

West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West

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Living and Writing the New American West Lynn Stegner, Russell Rowland. Parts of “The Conceit of Girls” first appeared in Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life, ed. Christian McEwen (Boston: Beacon Press , ...
Big House on the Prairie: 75 Years of the University of ...

Big House on the Prairie: 75 Years of the University of ...

University of Nebraska Press

Press employees (left to right) Kate Salem, Kim (Rutledge) Mahrt, and Wendi Foster pose with author Lynn Stegner (second from left) in front of the Press's booth at Book Expo America in 2007. Courtesy of the University of Nebraska Press.
Cold Creek

Cold Creek

Jay Nelson

“Lynn Terry.” she said, boredom and disdain in her voice. “We have to listen to Lynn Terry six days a week, and we have to listen to Miss Fielding talk about Lynn Terry all the time on top of it. Why, Lynn Terry wouldn't make the semifinals in ...
The Post Office Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk

The Post Office Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk

E.R. Kelly

... Norwich Rudd W. Grimston, Lynn Ruddock T. Burston, Diss Rudling J. Town green, Wymondham Rumbles J. Guanock field, Lynn Russell H. Exton's road, Lynn Russell J. Cawston, Alderford Russell J. Heacham, Lynn Russell R. Blakeney, ...
Annual Report of the Lynn Public Schools of the City of Lynn

Annual Report of the Lynn Public Schools of the City of Lynn

Lynn (Mass.). Public Schools

GRADUATES PICKERING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ! ll l i Herbert Walter Nelson of the LYNN. Sara Evelyn Abbott Edward Bacon Frances Clinton Bailey A. Porter Bancroft Lois Batchelder Olive Berry Chester P. Bond Mildred Louise Bond ...
The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in ...

The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in ...

Felicia Ann Kornbluh

Burson, Joyce, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Day, Edwin, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Duncan, Ruby, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Edelman, Peter and Marian Wright Edelman, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Espada, Frank, ...
Metal Worker. Plumber and Steam Fitter

Metal Worker. Plumber and Steam Fitter

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The Lynn Fountain Filter. We show in the accompanying illustration a broken view of the Lynn fountain filter, made by the Lynn Filter Mfg. Company, 1602- 1616 Gest street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The general features of the filter are shown in the cut, ...
Collected Stories

Collected Stories

Wallace Stegner

'This is the age for the short story.
The Family in the New Millennium: The place of family in ...

The Family in the New Millennium: The place of family in ...

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Lynn D. Wardle & Mary Anne Q. Wood, A Lawyer Looks At Abortion 3-44 (1982); Lynn D. Wardle, The Abortion Privacy Doctrine: A Compendium and Critique of Federal Court Abortion Cases xii-xiii (1980); Lynn D. Wardle, The Quandary of ...
Chance of Happiness: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island ...

Chance of Happiness: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island ...

Wendy Lynn Clark

Wendy Lynn Clark. Chance. of. Happiness. San Juan Island Stories #2 by Wendy Lynn Clark ***** Published by: Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing PO Box 1993 Vancouver, WA 98668 ...
The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, ...

The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, ...

Lynn Kear

ALSO BY LYNN KEAR AND JOHN ROSSMAN Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career (McFarland, 2006) Frontispiece: A pastel portrait from Mandalay (¡ 934). LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Kear, Lynn.
Fatty Patty: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island Stories ...

Fatty Patty: A Romantic Short Story (San Juan Island Stories ...

Wendy Lynn Clark

Wendy Lynn Clark. Fatty. Patty. San Juan Island Stories #1 by Wendy Lynn Clark ***** Published by: Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing PO Box 1993 Vancouver, WA 98668 ...

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