In this novel, a young boy is nearly killed crossing an unstable bridge to fetch a bottle of whiskey for the housekeeper Mrs.
In this novel, a young boy is nearly killed crossing an unstable bridge to fetch a bottle of whiskey for the housekeeper Mrs.Briscoe. This novel's narrator hires the liberal college dropout Shelley Rasmussen to be his scribe after he moves to his familyhome Zodiac Cottage in Grass Valley, and argues about the value of history with his sociologist son, Rodman. A femalecharacter is jealous when her best friend Augusta Drake marries Thomas Hudson, the editor of Scribner's, while she leads anitinerant life in places such as New Almaden and Leadville, where her husband Oliver works on various fruitless engineeringprojects. This novel's author controversially quoted the letters of Mary Hallock Foote for the letters of Susan Burling Ward,whose life is chronicled by the wheelchair-bound historian Lyman Ward. For 10 points, name this Pulitzer-winning 1971 novelby Wallace Stegner.
In this novel, a young boy is nearly killed crossing an unstable bridge to fetch a bottle of whiskey for the housekeeper Mrs.
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