Overview
In this moving sequel to Big Rock Candy Mountain, Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City, not for his aunt's funeral but to encounter after forty-five years the place he fled in bitterness. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood and sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect. But the realities of the present recede in the face of the ghosts of his past. As he makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, we enter with him on an intensely personal and painful inner pilgrimage, meeting the father who darkened his childhood, the mother whose support was both redeeming and embarrassing, the friend who drew him into the respectable world of which he so craved to be a part, and the woman he nearly married. In this profoundly moving book, Stegner has drawn an intimate portrait of a man understanding how his life has been shaped by experiences seemingly remote and inconsequential.
Full Product Details
Author: Wallace Stegner ,
Mark Bramhall
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 17.00cm
Weight: 0.059kg
ISBN: 9781538432082
ISBN 10: 1538432080
Publication Date: 19 September 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""Recapitulation is rich in the grittier American truths...It has a piece of our pathos at its core."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""Stegner is nothing if not a sturdy guildsman: he makes a book with strong ribs...The scenes, though, of Utah natural beauty are evocative and visual; Bruce's coming-to-terms with his dead, detested father also is effective...[A] quiet, competent work."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""This is Stegner's The Sound and the Fury...A book about time and its multiplicity of meanings in human experience, about the history of a family and its decline."" -- ""Jackson J. Benson, author of Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work"" ""Wonderful...One comes out aware of universal human feelings that have nothing to do with time."" -- "" Christian Science Monitor""
Author Information
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) wrote many books of fiction and nonfiction, including Crossing to Safety and the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. Mark Bramhall has narrated all the previous Lars Kepler audiobooks, and received Audiofile's 2011 Best Voice in MYSTERY & SUSPENSE for his work on The Hypnotist. A mulit-earphones award winner, Mark has also read works by Lev Grossman, Paulo Coelho, Elie Wiesel and William S. Burroughs among others. He has been featured on Days of Our Lives, Alias, and Star Trek.
