Product Description: Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city to the next, she is all too real but not at all the loyal and steady homebody of idealized womanhood...read more

Thirty-one stories spanning every period of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's career deal with the consistency of the natural world and the disorder and contradictory nature of people, in such works as 'Beyond the Glass Mountain,' 'The Traveler,' 'The Berry Patch,' 'In the Twilight,' and others. Reissue. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: "...a seductive, pyschological drama..." (From the front leaf.

Brings together eight previously uncollected essays, including four never-before-published pieces, that address every aspect of writing fiction and teaching creative writing, from the author's creative vision, to the use of symbolism, to the complex mysteries of the creative process. Original.

Product Description: In the tradition of Winesburg, Ohio, Stegner takes the linked story form to new heights as she explores the interactions of circumstance and temperament in determining people's choices in the face of their unsettled issues. Her acute, rich writing reveals the troubled fault-lines of the relationships that constitute each novella...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Stegner, Lynn

Product Description: What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possible to describe "how it was, how it is, here, in the West—just that," in the words of Lynn Stegner? Starting with that challenge, Stegner and Russell Rowland invited several dozen members of the western literary tribe to write about living in the West and being a western writer in particular...read more