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 Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known novella and several of Stegner's best-known essays on the American West. Seventy-five percent of the contents of this body of work is published here for the first time.
This is Wallace Stegner's most comprehensive collection of writings, and the first since his death in 1993. His son, Page, has selected fifteen essays that have never before been published in any book and placed them alongside Stegner's most powerful pieces in the book's three nonfiction parts: Home Ground (memory), Testimony (defense of the earth), and Inheritance (history). The fourth section of the book is devoted to a magnificent little-known novella, "Genesis." As Page Stegner writes of this collection, "It is as complete and comprehensive a statement as we are ever likely to have about what it means to be a westerner, about what it means to know ourselves as a 'part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.'"
"A true masterpiece . . . among the finest work about the West and its meaning."--Caroline Fraser, " Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"One of the greatest contemporary writers."--"Washington Post"
Industry Reviews
"A brilliant collection of the little-known and classic prose that have established Wallace Stegner as "one of the greatest contemporary writers." --The Washington Post
"The true masterpiece...Among the finest work about the West and its meanings...Everyone who lives in the West, or loves it, should pay attention to Stegner." --Caroline Fraser, Los Angeles Times (Best Non-Fiction selection 1998)
"[A] stellar collection...Those who already know his work will welcome Marking the Sparrow's Fall. Those who don't couldn't ask for a better introduction." --George Scialabba, The Boston Globe)
"No one has written more or better about the West, past and present, than Wallace Stegner." --Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today A brilliant collection of the little-known and classic prose that have established Wallace Stegner as "one of the greatest contemporary writers. "The Washington Post"
The true masterpiece...Among the finest work about the West and its meanings...Everyone who lives in the West, or loves it, should pay attention to Stegner. "Caroline Fraser, Los Angeles Times (Best Non-Fiction selection 1998)"
[A] stellar collection...Those who already know his work will welcome Marking the Sparrow's Fall. Those who don't couldn't ask for a better introduction. "George Scialabba, The Boston Globe)"
No one has written more or better about the West, past and present, than Wallace Stegner. "Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today"" "A brilliant collection of the little-known and classic prose that have established Wallace Stegner as "one of the greatest contemporary writers." --"The Washington Post"
The true masterpiece...Among the finest work about the West and its meanings...Everyone who lives in the West, or loves it, should pay attention to Stegner." --Caroline Fraser, " Los Angeles Times" (Best Non-Fiction selection 1998)
"[A] stellar collection...Those who already know his work will welcome Marking the Sparrow's Fall. Those who don't couldn't ask for a better introduction." --George Scialabba, "The Boston Globe")
"No one has written more or better about the West, past and present, than Wallace Stegner." --Bob Minzesheimer, "USA Today"
