Full name: Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West

Author: Wallace Stegner Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805044645 0805044647

Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known novella and several of Stegner's best-known essays on the American West. Seventy-five percent of the contents of this body of work is published here for the first time. Similar books: The Abundance by Annie Dillard Owning It All by William Kittredge Lasso the Wind by Timothy Egan Cleopatra's Nose by Daniel J. Boorstin Scribble, Scribble, Scribble by Simon Schama Upstream by Mary Oliver The Rub of Time by Martin Amis The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio In Favor of the Sensitive Man by Anais Nin On Looking by Lia Purpura At the Same Time by Susan Sontag When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel Practicing History by Barbara W. Tuchman Facing Unpleasant Facts by George Orwell An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso