Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West Paperback - 1999
by Page Stegner (Editor); Foreword by Wallace Earle Stegner; Preface by Page Stegner
The first collection published since his death in 1993 contains 15 never-before-published essays by Stegner, a little-known novella, and his most powerful and best-known essays on the American West.
First line
Unless everything in a man's memory of childhood is misleading, there is a time somewhere between the ages of five and twelve that corresponds to the phase ethologists have isolated in the development of birds, when an impression lasting only a few seconds may be imprinted on the young bird for life.
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Marking the Sparrow's Fall is Wallace Stegner's biggest collection and the first since his death. His son, Page, has selected fifteen essays that have never before been published in any book and placed them alongside Wallace Stegner's most powerful pieces in the book's three nonfiction parts: Home Ground (memory), Testimony (defense of the earth), and Inheritance (history). The fourth section of the book is devoted to a magnificent little-known novella, "Genesis". As Page Stegner writes of the collection, "It is as complete and comprehensive a statement as we are ever likely to have about what it means to be a westerner, about what it means to know ourselves as 'a part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.'"
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- Title Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West
- Author Page Stegner (Editor); Foreword by Wallace Earle Stegner; Preface by Page Stegner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-09-15
- ISBN 9780805062960 / 0805062963
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 1 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects Stegner, Wallace Earle, West (U.S.) - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97049281
- Dewey Decimal Code 978
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Citations
- Commonweal, 06/20/2003, Page 24
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