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OverviewWritten during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories of The Women on the Wall move from women to war and back again, but it is the women who remain central. There are Alma, a war bride who runs a farm better than the neighbor men; Lucy, a former WAAF, working through college; Tamsen, who keeps her husband drunk so she can do as she pleases; and the women on the wall, who, with nothing to do but wait for their husbands to return from the war, find their private consolations. To these stories Wallace Stegner brings the same skill and thoughtfulness that won him the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wallace StegnerPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.329kg ISBN: 9780803291102ISBN 10: 0803291108 Pages: 279 Publication Date: 01 February 1981 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational 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 ContentsReviewsThis is a group of remarkably able stories, reflecting people as well as situations. Mr. Stegner is one of the top craftsmen among today's short story writers, and this volume, representative of his work over a ten-year period, is eminently worth your time. -San Francisco Chronicle| In his quiet way, Wallace Stegner is one of the most talented writers in our midst. -New York Herald Tribune| Stegner has long been recognized as a master of the technique of the modern short story. This collection demonstrates his brilliant, incisive characterization as revealed by causal incident. -Library Journal This is a group of remarkably able stories, reflecting people as well as situations. Mr. Stegner is one of the top craftsmen among today''s short story writers, and this volume, representative of his work over a ten-year period, is eminently worth your time. -San Francisco Chronicle This is a group of remarkably able stories, reflecting people as well as situations. Mr. Stegner is one of the top craftsmen among today's short story writers, and this volume, representative of his work over a ten-year period, is eminently worth your time. -San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle In his quiet way, Wallace Stegner is one of the most talented writers in our midst. -New York Herald Tribune New York Herald Tribune Stegner has long been recognized as a master of the technique of the modern short story. This collection demonstrates his brilliant, incisive characterization as revealed by causal incident. -Library Journal Library Journal Stegner's versatility is already well proven, and this volume of wholly unstandardized short stories is but further evidence. The stories range from realistic anecdotal material with a folk quality to perceptive, sensitive psychological studies of adolescence and childhood. The scenes shift from Vermont to California, from Saskatchewan to Mexico. There's humor and pathos and occasional irony- but there's none of the sordidness, the disillusionment that marks so much of contemporary short story telling. Some may even call his stories old fashioned. I found them hearteningly American, without ever being either corny or sentimental. I'd suggest for sampling, to give you a flavor distinguishing these stories from the average collection, the following:- Beyond the Glass Mountain, the story of two one-time school chums meeting years later, when roles were reversed; Goin' To Town, a study of anticlimax; Two Rivers for contrast in mood; The Colt, a story of a boy's love for a colt- and the tragic aftermath; The Sweetness of the Twisted Apples for the flavor of rural life. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |