false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166334108m/10807.jpg 10807 3 The moving sequel to the bestselling Big Rock Candy Mountain Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not for his aunt's funeral, but to encounter after forty-five years the place he fled in bitterness. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood, sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect. But the realities of the present recede in the face of the ghosts of his past. As he makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, we enter with him on an intensely personal and painful inner pilgrimage: we meet the father who darkened his childhood, the mother whose support was both redeeming and embarrassing, the friend who drew him into the respectable world of which he so craved to be a part, and the woman he nearly married. In this profoundly moving book Stegner has drawn an intimate portrait of a man understanding how his life has been shaped by experiences seemingly remote and inconsequential. 657 1979 Recapitulation total:218|5:48|4:84|3:67|2:14|1:5| 218 810 303 30 2 1 false false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 20:02:22 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 20:06:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 18:17:34 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 18:30:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 14:07:11 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 20:58:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 02 11:57:10 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 10:34:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jun 06 19:06:45 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 19:09:22 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Dec 19 09:34:41 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:36:10 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Aug 21 12:47:20 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 12:48:25 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 07:29:24 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 13:41:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Aug 12 17:18:03 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 17:18:32 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 22:39:48 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 09:05:56 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 05:10:34 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 05:12:09 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 10 04:47:08 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 18 15:23:47 -0800 2008 the youngest son of that family returns to Salt Lake City
after 45 years away. Wallace Stegner himself is returning to
the autobiographical material of the first novel in writing this
one 35 years later. T...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Thu Aug 13 11:46:14 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 13:47:18 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri May 30 16:27:09 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 13:51:12 -0700 2008 The Big Rock Candy Mountain, though it does fill in more about Bruce's life -- since the focus in the previous book is on the parents, the kids get a bit of short shrift -- well, more that I had less of a sense of how they got from one point to another in the time jumps between chapt...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jul 04 15:41:34 -0700 2008 Tue May 12 15:07:54 -0700 2009
It seemed like the same story (his autobiography) told with different characters and different locations. Maybe I shouldn't have read 5 or 6 of them one after the other. There just wasn't anything ne...more...]]> 2 0 true false Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 10:09:02 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 11:33:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Feb 22 14:55:50 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 14:58:13 -0800 2008 I like Recapitulation more for the detailed description of historical Salt Lake City than for the actual story. Having grown up in SLC, it's interresting to read about the sites and sounds of the city as remembered by a man who returns to attend a funeral...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 03 19:31:19 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 13 09:56:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 01 12:35:43 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 10 10:52:28 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 20 23:33:23 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 23 14:40:33 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=10807