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Overview"A New England village, untouched by history since the American Revolution, is the unquiet arena containing, but just barely, the aloof natives and the summer residents. Their paths cross, happily or disastrously, in a book that seems too real to be fiction. As Wallace Stegner writes, the conflict on this particular frontier ""has been reproduced in an endlessly changing pattern all over the United States."" " Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wallace StegnerPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: Bison Books Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.255kg ISBN: 9780803291577ISBN 10: 0803291574 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 October 1985 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<br> Second Growth . . . is a creation of remarkable penetration and skill. Its small, accurate touches build up to a full and firm whole. Its objectivity, its air of knowledge and judgment, are accompanied by an almost lyrical, delicately restrained tenderness. Its prose is disciplined, sensitive and luminous. -- New York Times <br> Second Growth . . . is a creation of remarkable penetration and skill. Its small, accurate touches build up to a full and firm whole. Its objectivity, its air of knowledge and judgment, are accompanied by an almost lyrical, delicately restrained tenderness. Its prose is disciplined, sensitive and luminous. -- New York Times Incisive, restrained character delineation reminiscent of Willa Cather. Strongly recommended. - Library Journal Wallace Stegner's story about a rural community is told with subtle restraint in a style which is often poetic and always sensitive. - Chicago Sun Book Week Second Growth . . . is a creation of remarkable penetration and skill. Its small, accurate touches build up to a full and firm whole. Its objectivity, its air of knowledge and judgment, are accompanied by an almost lyrical, delicately restrained tenderness. Its prose is disciplined, sensitive and luminous. - New York Times Second Growth . . . is a creation of remarkable penetration and skill. Its small, accurate touches build up to a full and firm whole. Its objectivity, its air of knowledge and judgment, are accompanied by an almost lyrical, delicately restrained tenderness. Its prose is disciplined, sensitive and luminous. -- New York Times Wallace Stegner''s story about a rural community is told with subtle restraint in a style which is often poetic and always sensitive. -- Chicago Sun Book Week Incisive, restrained character delineation reminiscent of Willa Cather. Strongly recommended. -- Library Journal Stegner has proved himself adept in the field of the short novel; he has written one important novel, Big Rock Candy Mountain; now comes this book, neither novel nor short stories-but a book about a New Hampshire village that grows into a town during the vacation season when the visitors bring it to life. Stegner has given us the town through sharp, perceptive pieces about some of its residents. There is Helen Barlow, who almost escaped, and when drawn back found she couldn't take it; there is Flo, a lesbian, who has some measure of responsibility for Helen's failure; there is Abe Kaplan, tailor, who lives in a tent and who tries to make Ruth, a Brooklyn girl who found herself on the outside at a restricted hotel, find some place for herself as his wife in the village; and there is Andy, trying to live down his family's shady reputation; and then there are minor characters, some drawn by indirection, others in sharp, brief encounter. So well done that it will be enjoyed by an appreciative though not a large audience. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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