Wallace Stegner

Name: Wallace Stegner
Brand: Signature Books
SKU: 6904891

Cargando comentarios…

$193

$168

Envío gratis siempre

Comentarios

Cargando el resumen…

Por favor, inicia sesión para escribir un comentario.

Cargando comentarios…

7263827Wallace Stegnerhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/wallace-stegner-9781560855002/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6815202/image.jpg?v=638738056296970000168193MXNSignature BooksInStock/Ebooks/In this brisk and riveting biography, Alex Beam takes readers on a journey through Wallace Stegners life and complicated legacy as one of the twentieth centurys best storytellers and chroniclers of the American West.In a career that spanned half a century, Stegner wrote fourteen novels and seventeen works of nonfiction. Reared on the Canadian-American frontier and educated in Salt Lake City, Utah, this quintessential Man of the West won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He landed a coveted teaching job at Harvard but, eager to get back to the West, left it for a professorship at Stanford.Stegner was a full-throated environmentalist who served on the board of the Sierra Club, worked for the Secretary of the Interior, and wrote the famous Wilderness Letter on the healing power of open spaces. He founded Stanford Universitys legendary Stegner Writing Fellowship, where his students included Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Sandra Day OConnor, Tillie Olsen, and Scott Turow.In his later years Stegner wondered if he had lived too deep into the wrong century. He left Stanford when he felt students no longer accorded professors the respect they deserved, and later became embroiled in a plagiarism scandal that tarred his Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose.Stegner ended his career with his valedictory masterpiece, Crossing to Safety. It was his rare Eastern novel, set in his adopted home of Greensboro, Vermont, where he chose to be buried....6904891Wallace Stegner168193https://www.gandhi.com.mx/wallace-stegner-9781560855002/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6815202/image.jpg?v=638738056296970000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20259781560855002_W3siaWQiOiJiNjczYjgyNS00NzJkLTRiNWYtOGM5ZC1jYjMwODFmMDVjYjciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE5MywiZGlzY291bnQiOjI1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE2OCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781560855002_In this brisk and riveting biography, Alex Beam takes readers on a journey through Wallace Stegners life and complicated legacy as one of the twentieth centurys best storytellers and chroniclers of the American West.In a career that spanned half a century, Stegner wrote fourteen novels and seventeen works of nonfiction. Reared on the Canadian-American frontier and educated in Salt Lake City, Utah, this quintessential Man of the West won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He landed a coveted teaching job at Harvard but, eager to get back to the West, left it for a professorship at Stanford.Stegner was a full-throated environmentalist who served on the board of the Sierra Club, worked for the Secretary of the Interior, and wrote the famous Wilderness Letter on the healing power of open spaces. He founded Stanford Universitys legendary Stegner Writing Fellowship, where his students included Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Sandra Day OConnor, Tillie Olsen, and Scott Turow.In his later years Stegner wondered if he had lived too deep into the wrong century. He left Stanford when he felt students no longer accorded professors the respect they deserved, and later became embroiled in a plagiarism scandal that tarred his Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose.Stegner ended his career with his valedictory masterpiece, Crossing to Safety. It was his rare Eastern novel, set in his adopted home of Greensboro, Vermont, where he chose to be buried....9781560855002_Signature Bookslibro_electonico_9781560855002_9781560855002Alex BeamInglésMéxico2025-02-18T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-b9b35ef8-3504-4058-8e07-2ba1677405e3.epub2025-02-18T00:00:00+00:00Signature Books