Collected Stories Of Wallace Stegner (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stegner
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Blizzards, Family or family life, Nature, Rural or country life, Violence, City life, Human behavior, Birds, Cowboys or cowgirls, Generation gap, Comedy, Animals, Fourth of July
The stories in this collection date from the early career of the distinguished American novelist and historian, Wallace Stegner. None was written later than the 1950’s; as Stegner notes in his brief introduction, some of these stories were later incorporated into novels, which increasingly supplanted the short form in his developing career as a writer. As he says of the short story, “It seems to me a young writer’s form, made for discoveries and nuances and epiphanies and superbly adapted for trial syntheses.”
In all of his writing, Stegner’s primary emphasis has been...
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