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The Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

1991 ·
·4.14·5,716 Ratings ·563 Pages
“ You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ” ― Andrè Gide
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  • Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West

    1999·
    ·4.32·167 Ratings
    Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of
  • Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

    1992·
    ·4.06·2,770 Ratings
    John Wesley Powell fought in the Civil War and it cost him an arm. But it didn't stop him from exploring the American West. Here Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, gives us a thrilling account of Powell's struggle against western geography and Wash
  • Collected Stories

    2006·
    ·4.21·564 Ratings
    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
  • Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs

    2002·
    ·4.09·1,470 Ratings
    Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner’s most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; i
  • The Spectator Bird

    1990·
    ·3.98·4,314 Ratings
    This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West. Joe Allston is a cantankerous
  • The Sound of Mountain Water

    1997·
    ·4·204 Ratings
    A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural an
  • Wolf Willow

    2000·
    ·3.95·539 Ratings
    Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 19
  • Mormon Country

    2003·
    ·3.93·523 Ratings
    Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their “lovely Deseret,” a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies
  • The Ox-Bow Incident

    2004·
    ·3.81·3,970 Ratings
    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 aband
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