Recapitulation: A Novel

A classic novel from the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety—the incredible, moving sequel to the bestselling Big Rock Candy Mountain. Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not for his aunt’s funeral, but to encounter the place he fled in bitterness forty-five years ago. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward childhood and sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect. Both the realities of the present recede in the face of ghosts of his past. As he makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, we enter with him on an intensely personal and painful inner pilgrimage: we meet the father who darkened his childhood , the mother whose support was both redeeming and embarrassing, the friend who drew him into the respectable world of which he so craved to be a part, and the woman he nearly married. In this profound book, the sequel to the bestselling The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Wallace Stegner has drawn an intimate portrait of a man understanding how his life has been shaped by experiences seemingly remote and inconsequential. 9780525435426 0525435425 290 BOOK Fiction NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XJJPDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Wallace Stegner
• | Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• | Publication Date: Jan 16, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0525435425
• | ISBN-13: 9780525435426