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Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner’s most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With... read more
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First Sentence edit
I had no understanding of it while it was happening, did not comprehend either the deprivations or the advantages until acquaintance with other regions and older cultures began to define the terms of my identity for me, but from February 1909, when I was born on my grandfather's farm near Lake Mills, Iowa, to September 1930, when I boarded a bus in Salt Lake City to go "back east" to graduate school in Iowa, all the places I knew were western: North Dakota wheat towns, Washington logging camps, Saskatchewan prairie hamlets and lonely homesteads, and the cities of Seattle, Great Falls, Salt Lake, Hollywood, and Reno, with a lot of country seen on the fly between them.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Wallace Stegner (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0679410740
Page Count: 227
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0679410740
Page Count: 227
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1992: Criticism)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 81352
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