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

by Wallace Stegner · 1998

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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.

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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thistraveltravelMore like thisLess of this
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American historyAmerican historyMore like thisLess of this
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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisAmerican WestAmerican WestMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 384 pages
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