num_pages: 544
description: "This is an age for the short story. Some will be very fine, indeed. None will be better or more worthy of admiration than Wallace Stegner's collected stories."--The Washington Post Book WorldIn a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, has created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. These thirty-one stories demonstrate why he is acclaimed as one of America's master storytellers.Here are tales of young love and older wisdom; of the order and consistency of the natural world and chaos, contradictions, and also continuities of the human being. There is sweet love in a berry patch, there are bittersweet reunions, trials, and tests of manhood and friendship, and the sometimes foolish and impractical yet noble dreams of man. Each of these stories embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction."Exemplary stories...The reader of Stegner's writing is immediately reminded of an essential America...a distinct place, a unique people, a common history, and a shared heritage remembered as only Stegner can."--Los Angeles Times
language: English
title: Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner
titlecomplete: Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner
genres: Fiction, Anthologies, Collections, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Literature, Westerns, American Fiction
ratings_count: 859
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books