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Title: All the Little Live Things by Wallace Earle Stegner ISBN: 0-14-015441-8 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful Introduction to Wallace Stegner
Comment: Though it's moral issues are presented a little more black-and-white than in his two more widely acclaimed novels, "Crossing to Safety" and "Angle of Repose," this short novel can be read successfully on a variety of levels. It showcases many of Stegner's recurring ideas: living consciously in an increasingly unethical environment; suicide as an easy escape from responsibility; and how the choice is never between "life and death" as much as it a decision about how you want your life to effect those around you. But analysis aside, I love this book for Marian Catlan, one of Stegner's most intricate women yet. This novel is my personal favorite of all Stegners and one of the best novels I've ever read.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Finest
Comment: Every once in a while you happen upon a novel where you know you'll never forget the experience of reading those words. You know you'll never forget the characters. You know you'll never forget the lessons it taught you. You know that no matter how many books you read in your life, there won't be more than a handful to come close to it. All the Little Living Things is certainly one of those few.
All the Little Living Things is one of the finest novels I have ever read. I will not go into the plot because other reviewers have done so very well (read Paul McGrath's review; it's far better than mine), but I will say that it is immensely readable. Everything that happens in the novel happens because of the character's actions or thoughts. Nothing is contrived. Reading the story truly is a physical, not just a mental exercise, and you are exausted after finishing the novel. The prose is also superb. This is the third novel I've read by Wallace Stegner, and I don't know how many pages I have written down of quotes from the novels that I want to remember. The greatest thing about this novel is most definitely the characters, though. Joe Allston, who is also the main character of The Spectator Bird, is singularly the most complex character I've read in literature. You know everything about him, every aspect of his character. The supporting characters are superb too. They take on many dimensions. This novel thrives on the insights Joe gains from just being around these people. It is amazing to see Joe change: to see him learn about his relationship with people of a younger genteration, to see him learn that he can't escape life, and to see beauty in all aspects of life. It is amazing to learn with Joe.
All the Little Living Things really is a marvelous novel. I really cannot express how great it is. It is a masterpiece of twentieth century American literature, and I think that Wallace Stegner is without a doubt the greatest American novelist yet.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great
Comment: It's so good because it's completely believable - nothing happens by surprise, but by careful character development. Stegner writes so many good books that I can't say that this is his best, but it is unforgettable.
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Title: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner ISBN: 0140139400 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner ISBN: 0140139397 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner ISBN: 0140252401 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner ISBN: 014016930X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner ISBN: 037575931X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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