Collected Stories (Stegner, Wallace)

by Stegner, Wallace (Author); Stegner, Lynn (Introduction by)

• ISBN13: 9780143039792
• ISBN10: 0143039792
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-25
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating why the author is acclaimed as one of America’s master storytellers. BACKCOVER: 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

Author Biography

WALLACE STEGNER (1909-û1993) was born in Iowa and moved extensively with his family as a young man. He attended the University of Utah, where he became a teacher before becoming the director of the writing program at Stanford. An ardent environmentalist, Stegner is known as the champion of the American West, its beauty and native spirituality.

Lynn Stegner is the author of two novels, Undertow and Fata Morgana both nominated for the National Book Award.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Wallace Stegner	ix
Introduction by Lynn Stegner	xiii
Suggestions for Further Reading	xxxix
The Traveler	3	(10)
Buglesong	13	(8)
Beyond the Glass Mountain	21	(12)
The Berry Patch	33	(8)
The Women on the Wall	41	(20)
Balance His, Swing Yours	61	(8)
Saw Gang	69	(6)
Goin' to Town	75	(10)
The View from the Balcony	85	(22)
Volcano	107	(8)
Two Rivers	115	(14)
Hostage	129	(8)
In the Twilight	137	(10)
Butcher Bird	147	(12)
The Double Corner	159	(20)
The Colt	179	(12)
The Chink	191	(14)
Chip off the Old Block	205	(16)
The Sweetness of the Twisted Apples	221	(10)
The Blue-Winged Teal	231	(16)
Pop Goes the Alley Cat	247	(20)
Maiden in a Tower	267	(12)
Impasse	279	(14)
The Volunteer	293	(18)
A Field Guide to the Western Birds	311	(50)
Something Spurious from the Mindanao Deep	361	(16)
Genesis	377	(76)
The Wolfer	453	(18)
Carrion Spring	471	(16)
He Who Spits at the Sky	487	(26)
The City of the Living	513