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Ruth
Sep 24, 2007 rated it liked it
A big fat sprawling novel with a fascinating story line. Exactly the kind of book I used to love to wallow in. Now, however, such books make me restless. I want more and at the same time I want less. The writing, of course, is good, if not lyrical. The plot was always believeable. I’d like to have been Stegnor’s editor, taking a blue pencils to those passages of endless description, and those sections where he felt compelled to explain every motive and every thought in his characters’ heads.
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I like Wallace Stegner's style a lot. His writing sounds contemporary even though this book was written in 1938. Its obvious that he understands life and how people operate. ...more
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Depressing. And not in a good way.
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