The Women on the Wall: WOMEN ON THE WALL

by Wallace Stegner

2020-12-29 21:42:18

Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories of The Women on the Wall move from women to war and back again, but it is the women who remain central. There are Alma, a war bride who runs a farm better than the neighbor... Read more
Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories of The Women on the Wall move from women to war and back again, but it is the women who remain central. There are Alma, a war bride who runs a farm better than the neighbor men; Lucy, a former WAAF, working through college; Tamsen, who keeps her husband drunk so she can do as she pleases; and the women on the wall, who, with nothing to do but wait for their husbands to return from the war, find their private consolations. To these stories Wallace Stegner brings the same skill and thoughtfulness that won him the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird
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Book Details

File size7.95 X 5.3 X 0.7 in
Print pages279
PublisherUNP - Nebraska Paperback
Publication date February 1, 1981
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780803291102
Wallace Earle Stegner (Feb 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer P...

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