- Grandparents in fiction, Married people in fiction, Fiction, People with disabilities in fiction
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Wallace Stegner
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 569
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Penguin Publishing Group, Perfection Learning Corporation
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780449209882
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Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. - wikipedia
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