Wallace Stegner

An iconic novel of the American West — a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the pastLyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother – now long dead – who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. But as he explores his grandmother's history, Lyman's great quest also leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life.Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Angle of Repose is Wallace Stegner’s masterpiece and a fascinating glimpse into frontier-era America.With an Introduction by JACKSON J. BENSON

Uolles Stegner poluchil za roman "Ugol pokoja" Pulittserovskuju premiju, i eta kniga zasluzhenno schitaetsja vershinoj ego tvorchestva. Lajman Uord, pozhiloj chelovek, prikovannyj k invalidnomu kreslu, reshaet razobrat arkhivy svoikh dedushki i babushki i vossozdat istoriju ikh zhizni. Ded-inzhener i babushka, khudozhnitsa i pisatelnitsa, byli pionerami osvoenija Zapada SSHA. No, pytajas razobratsja v peripetijakh ikh sudeb, Uord pomimo svoej voli pogruzhaetsja i v osmyslenie sobstvennoj zhizni.Perevod s anglijskogo: Leonid Motylev

This Is Dinosaur was first published in 1955, in the midst of a bitter controversy over the proposed construction of dams at Echo Park. The outcome of the controversy--a congressional vote to prohibit the dams--"set in brass the principle that any part of the national park system should be immune from any sort of intrusion and damage," wrote Wallace Stegner in the 1985 edition of the book. Reprinted with new color photographs, This Is Dinosaur still stands as a classic introduction to the historic, scenic, archeological, and biological resources of the Monument by an impressive array of writers. Contains the following essays: ·"The Marks of Human Passage" by Wallace Stegner ·"Geological Exhibit" by Eliot Backwelder ·"The Natural World of Dinosaur" by Olaus Murie and Joseph W. Penfold ·"The Ancients of the Canyons" by Robert Lister ·"Fast Water" by Otis "Dock" Marston ·"A Short Look at Eden" by David Bradley ·"The National Park Idea" by Alfred A. Knopf

»Romankonst när den är som allra bäst« – Hanna Jedvik, P1 Kultur»Strålande roman om nära vänskap« - Dan Sjögren, Hallands Nyheter»Det är en vacker, vindlande skrift han lämnat efter sig. Delvis självbiografisk och så skickligt disponerad att jag blir alldeles till mig. Prosan utkarvad liksom i eneträ av en åldrad slöjdares hand.«– Jonas Gren, Helsingborgs Dagblad»Romanen är elegisk, intellektuell och innerlig och erbjuder en berättelse om vänskap som är starkt berörande.« – Ingrid Bosseldal, Göteborgsposten»det är på många sätt en underbar roman: rolig, rörande och med fantastiskt levande personskildringar« – Therese Bohman, Expressen»en roman att luta sitt trötta huvud mot, att sjunka ner i som i ett varmt bad där stormen utanför bara hörs som en viskning« – Jonas Thente, DN»en stillsam och samtidigt nästan rusigt hyllning till kärlek och gemenskap« – Alexander Skantze, Tidningen Vi”Vad jag bevarat” är Wallace Stegners magnum opus. Den utkom 1987, då han var nästan åttio år gammal, femtio år efter att han debuterat som författare. I denna roman om två par, fyra vänner, når de motiv han intresserade sig för genom sitt författarskap sin fulländning.Berättarrösten tillhör Larry Morgan, en åldrad författare som tillsammans med sin hustru Sally har rest från New Mexico till ett sommarhus i Vermont. Stugan tillhör vännerna Sid och Charity; den senare är svårt sjuk och i väntan på att hon ska somna in får de två parens trettio år tillsammans nytt siktdjup. Larry och Sid träffas första gången 1938 i Wisconsin, när båda är unga universitets lärare i litteratur. De finner varandra trots sina olikheter, liksom Charity och Sally. Där Charity är en rastlös natur, besatt av framgång, liv och rörelse, är Sally en re!ekterande person som så småningom drabbas av polio och hamnar i rullstol. Det handlar om klass och strävan, förlust och försakelse, och de starka och dunkla krafter som rör sig mellan vänner och älskande under ett helt liv.WALLACE STEGNER (1909–1993) är ett av den amerikanska litteraturens stora namn. Förutom ett antal älskade romaner, där ”Angle of Repose” som fick Pulitzerpriset 1972 bör nämnas, skrev han essäistik, kritik och biografier. Stegner föddes i Iowa och var en västerns epiker med ett brinnande miljöengagemang. Han ledde i tjugofem år författarutbildningen vid Harvarduniversitetet.»En enastående bok … Ingenting i dessa liv sjabblas bort eller förslösas; lidandet blir en berikande välsignelse och själva livet en erfarenhet fylld av ljus.« DORIS GRUMBACH, NEW YORK TIMES (1987)Översättning: Eva Johansson

Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. Blending fact with fiction, Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill--the Wobbly bard 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 faith in the One Big Union--Joe Hill fought tirelessly in the frequently violent battles between organized labor and industry. But though songs and stories still vaunt him, and his legend continues to inspire those who feel the injustices he fought against, Joe Hill may not have been a saintly crusader and may have been motivated by impulses darker than the search for justice.

Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune--in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Bo chases after the promise of the American dream through Minnesota, the Dakotas, Saskatchewan, Montana, Utah and Nevada, but ultimately there is no escaping the devastating reach of the Depression and his own ruinous fate. In this affecting narrative, a defining masterpiece by the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times), Wallace Stegner portrays more than three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survivle during the lean years of the early twentieth century. With an introduction by Robert Stone.

An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner--a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.

'Enchanting, heartrending and eminently enviable' Vladimir NabokovPulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded fro 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applies childhood remembrances and adult reflection to the history of the region to create this wise and enduring portrait of pioneer community existing in the verge of a modern world.'Stegner has summarized the frontier story and interpreted it as only one who was part of it could' The New York Times Book Review

Literary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel All the Little Live Things, is now retired and, in his own words, 'just killing time until 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 an old friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he and his wife had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace, where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough.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); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays, 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner, 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

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 rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.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.Wallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, Remembering Laughter (1973); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star (1961); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird (1976, National Book Award); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays, 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner, 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

Sabrina Castro, an attractive woman with a strong New England heritage, is married to a wealthy, older California physician who no longer fulfils her dreams. An almost accidental misstep leads her down the slow descent of moral disintegration, until there is no place for her to go but up and out. How Sabrina comes to term with her life is the theme of this absorbing personal drama, played out against the background of an old Peninsula estate where her mother lives among her servants, her memories of Boston and her treasured family archives. A Shooting star displays all the greatness of Wallace Stegner's storytelling powers.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); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird (1976, National Book Award); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays, 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner, 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminationsabout the making of America. . . . We are the unfinished product of a long becoming. --from American PlacesFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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 America's master storytellers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Sabrina Castro, an attractive woman with a strong New England heritage, is married to a wealthy, older California physician who no longer fulfills her dreams. An almost accidental misstep leads her down the slow descent of moral disintegration, until there is no place for her to go but up and out. How Sabrina comes to terms with her life is the theme of this absorbing personal drama, played out against the background of an old Peninsula estate where her mother lives among her servants, her memories of Boston, and her treasured family archives. A Shooting Star displays the storytelling powers that Wallace Stagner's fans have enjoyed for more than half a century.

Wallace Stegner, a major American novelist and conservationist, is interviewed by Etulain, a renowned Western scholar, in a series of discussions. Originally published in 1983 and entitled Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature, this book is the ultimate Stegner interview. New foreword by Stewart Udall.

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 it In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.

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 Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and sex; and Marian Catlin, an attractive young woman whose otherworldly innocence is far more appealing--and far more dangerous.

Louis Tikas was a union organizer killed in the battle between striking coal miners and state militia in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914. In Buried Unsung he stands for a whole generation of immigrant workers who, in the years before World War I, found themselves caught between the realities of industrial America and their aspirations for a better life.

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 diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward childhood and sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect. Both the realities of the present recede in the face of ghosts of his past. As he makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, we enter with him on an intensely personal and painful inner pilgrimage: we meet the father who darkened his childhood, the mother whose support was both redeeming and embarrassing, the friend who drew him into the respectable world of which he so craved to be a part, and the woman he nearly married. In this profound book, the sequel to the bestselling The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Wallace Stegner has drawn an intimate portrait of a man understanding how his life has been shaped by experiences seemingly remote and inconsequential.

»Romankonst när den är som allra bäst« Hanna Jedvik, P1 Kultur »Strålande roman om nära vänskap« Dan Sjögren, Helsingborgs Dagblad »det är på många sätt en underbar roman: rolig, rörande och med fantastiskt levande personskildringar« Therese Bohman, Expressen »en roman att luta sitt trötta huvud mot, att sjunka ner i som i ett varmt bad där stormen utanför bara hörs som en viskning« Jonas Thente, DN »en stillsam och samtidigt nästan rusigt hyllning till kärlek och gemenskap« Alexander Skantze, Tidningen Vi Vad jag bevarat är Wallace Stegners magnum opus. Den utkom 1987, då han var nästan åttio år gammal, femtio år efter att han debuterat som författare. I denna roman om två par, fyra vänner, når de motiv han intresserade sig för genom sitt författarskap sin fulländning.Berättarrösten tillhör Larry Morgan, en åldrad författare som tillsammans med sin hustru Sally har rest från New Mexico till ett sommarhus i Vermont. Stugan tillhör vännerna Sid och Charity; den senare är svårt sjuk och i väntan på att hon ska somna in får de två parens trettio år tillsammans nytt siktdjup. Larry och Sid träffas första gången 1938 i Wisconsin, när båda är unga universitets lärare i litteratur. De finner varandra trots sina olikheter, liksom Charity och Sally. Där Charity är en rastlös natur, besatt av framgång, liv och rörelse, är Sally en re!ekterande person som så småningom drabbas av polio och hamnar i rullstol. Det handlar om klass och strävan, förlust och försakelse, och de starka och dunkla krafter som rör sig mellan vänner och älskande under ett helt liv. WALLACE STEGNER (19091993) är ett av den amerikanska litteraturens stora namn. Förutom ett antal älskade romaner, där Angle of Repose som fick Pulitzerpriset 1972 bör nämnas, skrev han essäistik, kritik och biografier. Stegner föddes i Iowa och var en västerns epiker med ett brinnande miljöengagemang. Han ledde i tjugofem år författarutbildningen vid Harvarduniversitetet.»En enastående bok Ingenting i dessa liv sjabblas bort eller förslösas; lidandet blir en berikande välsignelse och själva livet en erfarenhet fylld av ljus.« DORIS GRUMBACH, NEW YORK TIMES (1987)Översättning: Eva Johansson