All the Little Live Things

by Wallace Stegner

Overview

Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and sex; and Marian Catlin, an attractive young woman whose otherworldly innocence is far more appealing—and far more dangerous.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140154412
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/01/1991
Series:	Contemporary American Fiction Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal), Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction includes The Sound of Mountain Water, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. Three of his short stories won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

Date of Birth:

February 18, 1909

Date of Death:

April 13, 1993

Place of Birth:

Lake Mills, Iowa

Place of Death:

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Education:

B.A., University of Utah, 1930; attended University of California, 1932-33; Ph. D., State University of Iowa, 1935

Editorial Reviews

"Timely and timeless . . . Will hold any reader to its last haunting page."
—Chicago Tribune

"A novel of crackling vividness"
—The New York Times Book Review

"The Great Gastby captures the twenties and yet transcends them. All the Little Live Things is a comparable achievement for the sixties. . . . Stegner's craft is here at an apex."
—Virginia Quarterly Review

From the Publisher

**** Reprint of the Viking edition of 1967 (which is recommended by BCL3). Still not printed on acid-free paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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