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Wallace Stegner and the American West.(Brief article)(Book review)
Stegner, born in Iowa in 1909 and brought up on a Saskatchewan dirt farm, may have been our last frontier writer. As Fradkin notes in this astute biography, it was a miracle that he didn't write pulp Westerns. Instead, Stegner took as his subject the failure of his father's homestead, built on denial of the most fundamental Western reality: drought. Stegner's fiction stalked the slow disintegration of the family as closely ...
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