By Wallace Stegner
ISBN-10: 0141392398
ISBN-13: 9780141392394
'One of our best modern novelists' Washington Post
Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake urban no longer for his aunt's funeral, yet to come across where he fled in bitterness forty-five years in the past. A profitable statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward adolescence to develop into a determine who commanded overseas recognize. however the realities of the current recede within the face of ghosts of his earlier. As he makes the perfunctory preparations for the funeral, his internal pilgrimage leads him to the daddy who darkened his early life, the mummy whose help was once either redeeming and embarrassing, the pal who drew him into the good global of which he so craved to be an element, and the girl he approximately married.
In this profoundly relocating booklet, Stegner has drawn an intimate portrait of a guy knowing how his lifestyles has been formed via stories likely distant and inconsequential.
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'One of our best modern novelists' Washington PostBruce Mason returns to Salt Lake urban no longer for his aunt's funeral, yet to come across where he fled in bitterness forty-five years in the past. A profitable statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward early life to turn into a determine who commanded overseas recognize.
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