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  • This Is Dinosaur

    Echo Park Country and Its Magic Rivers

    Edited by Wallace Stegner ...
    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. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    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

    $16.95 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

  • West of 98

    Living and Writing the New American West

    Edited by Lynn Stegner, Russell Rowland ...
    What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possible to describe "how it was, how it is, here, in the West—just that," in the words of Lynn Stegner? Starting with that challenge, Stegner and Russell Rowland invited several dozen members of the western literary tribe to write about living in the West and being a western writer in ... Read more

    $15.89 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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ox-Bow Incident

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal ... Read more

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    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

    $34.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Workshops of Empire

    Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

    by Eric Bennett ...
    Series series New American Canon
    During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War ... Read more

    $16.19 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

    $9.99 USD

  • Wallace Stegner

    Dean of Western Writers

    by Alex Beam ...
    In this brisk and riveting biography, Alex Beam takes readers on a journey through Wallace Stegner’s life and complicated legacy as one of the twentieth century’s best storytellers and chroniclers of the American West.In a career that spanned half a century, Stegner wrote fourteen novels and seventeen works of nonfiction. Reared on the Canadian-American frontier and educated in Salt Lake City, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Ovarian Pathology

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    When presented with the task of editing a volume on such a wide When presented with the task of editing a volume on such a wide and and diverse diverse topic topic as as Ovarian Ovarian Pathology, Pathology, it it is is difficult difficult to to know know how how to to limit limit the the range range of of subjects subjects to to be be covered covered when when there there are are so so many many ... Read more

    $49.49 USD