Stegner's versatility is already well proven, and this volume of
wholly unstandardized short stories is but further evidence. The
stories range from realistic anecdotal material with a folk quality
to perceptive, sensitive psychological studies of adolescence and
childhood. The scenes shift from Vermont to California, from
Saskatchewan to Mexico. There's humor and pathos and occasional
irony- but there's none of the sordidness, the disillusionment that
marks so much of contemporary short story telling. Some may even
call his stories old fashioned. I found them hearteningly American,
without ever being either corny or sentimental. I'd suggest for
sampling, to give you a flavor distinguishing these stories from
the average collection, the following:- Beyond the Glass Mountain,
the story of two one-time school chums meeting years later, when
roles were reversed; Goin' To Town, a study of anticlimax; Two
Rivers for contrast in mood; The Colt, a story of a boy's love for
a colt- and the tragic aftermath; The Sweetness of the Twisted
Apples for the flavor of rural life. (Kirkus Reviews)
Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the
eighteen stories of "The Women on the Wall" move from women to war
and back again, but it is the women who remain central. There are
Alma, a war bride who runs a farm better than the neighbor men;
Lucy, a former WAAF, working through college; Tamsen, who keeps her
husband drunk so she can do as she pleases; and the women on the
wall, who, with nothing to do but wait for their husbands to return
from the war, find their private consolations. To these stories
Wallace Stegner brings the same skill and thoughtfulness that won
him the National Book Award for "The Spectator Bird"
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