A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly find they have much in common: Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the English department at the University of Wisconsin. Immediately a lifelong friends...

L'ultimo romanzo di un grande autore americano, che esplora con delicatezza e ferocia l'alchimia tra amicizia e matrimonio.Larry Morgan è un uomo anziano quando prende a raccontare a ritroso la storia sua e della moglie, l'angelica Sally, e quella dei Lang, la coppia che è stata loro amica per tutta la vita: Sid, affascinante e inetto, e Charity, vivace e prepotente. È Charity, negli anni della giovinezza, ad accendere la doppia amicizia e a controllare gran parte d...

Wallace Stegner’s uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian, who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and wives. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward’s investigation leads him deep into ...

From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling itIn Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado...

Dakota, 1905.La jeune Elsa a fui les plaines du Minnesota pour venir jusqu'ici dans l'espoir d'y fonder une famille. Bo Mason, lui, rêve de fortune, d'aventures, de mouvement perpétuel et de conquêtes. Lorsqu'ils tombent éperdument amoureux, ces désirs contradictoires semblent accessoires.Au fur et à mesure des trente années qu'ils vont partager naîtront deux garçons, se désintègreront les désirs, se bâtiront d'autres réussites, pendant qu'un pays continuera ...

Suspendue au bras de son mari Alec, Margaret guette avec impatience l'arrivée du train de sa sœur Elspeth, venue d'Écosse pour vivre avec eux dans l'Iowa.Vive et malicieuse, s'émerveillant d'un rien, Elspeth respire la joie de vivre et ne tarde pas à illuminer leur vie de riches fermiers bien installés.Mais alors que l'automne s'annonce, un triangle amoureux se forme peu à peu entre Alec et les deux soeurs. Lorsque survient l'irréparable, celui-ci ne tarde pas à se transforme...

Bruce Mason est un ambassadeur à la retraite installé à San Francisco. Quarante-cinq ans auparavant, il partait de Salt Lake City avec la ferme intention de tirer un trait définitif sur son histoire familiale mouvementée.Il n’a plus grand-chose en commun avec le garçon frêle et révolté qu’il était. Mais le voici de retour dans la ville de sa jeunesse pour organiser l’enterrement de sa tante.Au fil de ses déambulations dans les rues familières, ses souvenirs...

Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the hotel business, in new farmland and eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.In this affecting narrative, Wallace Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean ye...

Voor liefhebbers van grote Amerikaanse auteurs als Steinbeck, Updike en Kingsolver.In het Amerika van de jaren dertig volgt dit tijdloze verhaal twee jonge echtparen met dromen van een academische carrière en het familieleven. Wallace Stegner, geprezen als de 'decaan van westerse schrijvers' en winnaar van een Pulitzer-prijs, schreef dit meesterwerk op 78-jarige leeftijd.Twee jonge stellen ontmoeten elkaar tijdens de hoogtijdagen van de Grote Depressie. Terwijl Charity en S...

Literary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel All the Little Live Things, is now retired and, in his own words, 'just killing time until time gets around to killing me.' His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from an old friend causes Allston to return to the journal...

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Each peak of success takes him a little bit higher, and each valley sinks him lower than ever before—both financially and in his relationship with his family.Based...

Deux couples d'enseignants à l'âge de la retraite, amis de longue date, passent leurs vacances dans une maison isolée en pleine forêt.Les uns étaient modestes, les autres mondains, mais l'amour de la littérature, le partage des bonheurs et des épreuves de l'existence ont forgé entre eux un lien aussi indissoluble que nécessaire.Au fil des retours sur le passé, Stegner évoque avec force et émotion le flot de la vie et la puissance du souvenir, tandis que s'invite la promesse ...