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Recapitulation

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SKU:
777
Condition:
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Format:
Paperback, 278 pages
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press, 1986
Edition:
First Bison Book Edition, Fifth Printing
Bruce Mason, last seen as a youth embittered by the events of The Big Rock Candy Mountain, returns to Salt Lake City forty-five years later for the funeral of an aunt. As Bruce makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, we enter with him on an intensely private and painful inner pilgrimage populated by the ghosts of his past. Recollections of them become a source of revelation for Bruce Mason. He makes peace with his dead father and finally comes around to what he is: a respected professional diplomat and a man with a past worth inheriting. Recapitulation is a moving novel about self-knowledge dearly bought and ultimate survival by one of America's most distinguished novelists.

Bruce Mason, last seen as a youth embittered by the events of The Big Rock Candy Mountain, returns to Salt Lake City forty-five years later for the funeral of an aunt. As Bruce makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, we enter with him on an intensely private and painful inner pilgrimage populated by the ghosts of his past. Recollections of them become a source of revelation for Bruce Mason. He makes peace with his dead father and finally comes around to what he is: a respected professional diplomat and a man with a past worth inheriting.

Recapitulation is a moving novel about self-knowledge dearly bought and ultimate survival by one of America's most distinguished novelists.

Editorial Reviews

"In an age of explicit sex scenes and of male-female hates and struggles, it is wonderful to open this book.... Despite the flapper fashions and references to prohibition and old Fords, one comes out aware of universal, human feelings that have nothing to do with time—present, future, or past."  —Christian Science Monitor

"Recapitulation is rich in the grittier American truths...It has a piece of our pathos at its core."  —Benjamin DeMott, New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter,1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill,1950; All the Little Live Things,1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star,1961; Angle of Repose,1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird,1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation,1979; and Crossing to Safety,1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian,1954; Wolf Willow,1963; The Sound of Mountain Water(essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto,1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Storieswas published in 1990.