Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country

Wallace Stegner is an iconic western writer. His works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Angle of Repose and Big Rock Candy Mountain, as well as his nonfiction books and essays introduced the beauty and character of the American West to thousands of readers. Wallace Stegners Unsettled Country assesses his life, work, and legacy in light of contemporary issues and crises. Along with Stegners achievements, the contributors show how his failures offer equally crucial ways to assess the past, present, and future of the region. Drawing from history, literature, philosophy, law, geography, and park management, the contributors consider Stegners racial liberalism and regional vision, his gendered view of the world, his understandings of conservation and the environment, his personal experience of economic collapse and poverty, his yearning for community, and his abiding attachment to the West. Wallace Stegners Unsettled Country is an even-handed reclamation of Stegners enduring relevance to anyone concerned about the American Wests uncertain future.