All the Little Live Things
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780803241107 (0803241100)
Publish date: October 1st 1979
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Pages no: 345
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
American Fiction,
High School
Because its issues mix the deeply (at times awkwardly) personal into a broader generational view, All the Little Live Things is a novel that has revealed to this reader widely different messages at different times. In my twenties I enjoyed the anger toward the rootless hippy culture of the 1960's: ...
Wallace Stegner was a very meditative writer. This, I think, is why some people have a hard time getting through his books. There's a lot of rumination on the part of the characters, while the plot sits on the back burner. With some authors this drives me crazy, but with Stegner I somehow have the...
All the Little Live Things is about Wallace Stegner's anger toward the Sixties, their chaotic disinterest in morality and unabashed self-interest. And the book seems also to be about youth: how the idealistic, immediate prejudices of the young can instill in the same man a love of innocence, a hatr...
11 years ago
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