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Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of personal, historical, and geographic breakthrough
Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward packages out to write his grandparents' impressive tale, chronicling their times spent carving civilization into the surface of America's european frontier. But his research uncovers even more about his own life than he's prepared to admit. What emerges is an enthralling family portrait of four decades in the life span of any American family.
"Cause for celebration . . . A superb novel with an amplitude of range and richness of depth altogether unusual in modern fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly
"Brilliant . . . Two tales, past and present, merge to create what important fiction must: a sense of the enchantment of life." —Los Angeles Times
This Penguin Classics edition features an launch by Jackson J. Benson.
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