A Shooting Star
Wallace Stegner
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Sabrina Castro, an attractive woman with a strong New England heritage, is married to a wealthy, older California physician who no longer fulfills her dreams. An almost accidental misstep leads her down the slow descent of moral disintegration, until there is no place for her to go but up and out. How Sabrina comes to terms with her life is the theme of this absorbing personal drama, played out against the background of an old Peninsula estate where her mother lives among her servants, her memories of Boston, and her treasured family archives. "A Shooting Star" displays the storytelling powers that Wallace Stegner's fans have enjoyed for more than half a century.
Product Details
Price
$22.00
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date
November 01, 1996
Pages
448
Dimensions
5.07 X 7.77 X 0.82 inches | 0.67 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780140252415
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About the Author
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal), Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction includes The Sound of Mountain Water, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. Three of his short stories won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.
Reviews
"Masterly and engaging"
--Carlos Baker, The New York Times Book Review
--Carlos Baker, The New York Times Book Review
"One of our greatest contemporary novelists"
--The Washington Post
