- Fiction, Literature, Families, West (u.s.), fiction
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Wallace Stegner
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 563
- Publisher
- Sagamore Press, World Pub. Co., University of Nebraska Press
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101075036
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“The train was rocking through wide open country before Elsa was able to put off the misery of leaving and reach out for the freedom and release that were hers now.”
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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