Recapitulation - Softcover

Stegner, Wallace Earle

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ISBN 10: 0449242633 ISBN 13: 9780449242636

Publisher: Fawcett Books, 1980

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Returning to his childhood home for his aunt's funeral, a man is overtaken by the memories of his past, the realities of his present, and intimations of his future

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"This is Stegner's The Sound and the Fury. Like the Faulkner novel, Recapitulation is a book about time and its multiplicity of meanings in human experience, about the history of a family and its decline." --Jackson J. Benson, author of Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work

"Stegner's cool-handed assurance--and his heightened visibility as a National Book Award winner--will reach out to...earnest readers." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; 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); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. 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, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his 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. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.

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