Wolf Willow: A History, A Story and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Classics Series) »

Taking the American frontier both physical and psychological as his subject, Wallace Stegner created a body of work that stretches from prizewinning novels and short stories to historical and political nonfiction. Taking both human experience and natural beauty as his muses, Stegner embodied what he called the western character.

Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. This Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes a new introductory essay by Page Stegner.

"Enchanting, heartrending, and eminently enviable."—Vladimir Nabokov

"Beautiful and moving ...In many ways the best of all the good books Stegner has written"—Walter Van Tilberg Clarck