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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth
Matthew D Stewart
其他書名
Wallace Stegner in California
出版
University of Utah Press
, 2022
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
History / General
History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / Regional
ISBN
1647690552
9781647690557
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IhZ-zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
As author of the "Wilderness Letter" and major award-winning novels, histories, essays, and biographies, Wallace Stegner worked throughout his life to protect western lands, places, and peoples. His writing was and remains an inspiration and guide for countless people attempting to cultivate a sense of place in the American West while tacking their way through uncertain times.
This book tells the story of Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, during its transition from the Valley of Heart's Delight (known for its rolling hills and orchards) to Silicon Valley. In this thoughtful study of the novels Stegner wrote in California--including his Pulitzer Prize-winning
Angle of Repose
--readers are invited to consider with Stegner what the practice of place requires in the American West. Specialists in the literature and history of the American West will find new analyses of Stegner and his influential work. Other readers will be guided through Stegner's work in concrete and accessible prose, and anyone who has longed for home and a sense of place will encounter a powerful, beautiful, and at times tragic attempt to build and preserve it.