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Title: A Shooting Star by Wallace Earle Stegner ISBN: 0-14-025241-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Shooting Star
Comment: Not my favorite Stegner book but would probably be an interesting book for discussion. Such a contrast between the author's analytical, dry voice and the main character's flighty desperation. It makes an interesting contrast, but hard to get into the character at times. Also, Stegner doesn't seem to understand women as well as men, especially this one. Another point of interest: its publication date. Some of this must have been a lot more sensational then than now, but it's also fun to see that "people back then" weren't as different from us as we'd like to think.
The other characters in the book were frustrating, I thought. The mother was the most intriguing. The others were stereotypical and annoying. I wanted to learn more about Bobbie, the "perfect," "content" friend - how could she be so serene when married to a know-it-all like Leonard? And Sabrina's brother read like something out of a romance novel. If only he had a long black mustache to twirl!
All in all, not my favorite but it did get me to thinkin', and that's never a bad thing.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dated Dynasty clone
Comment: I read this because of the positive reviews, but Washington DC has it right. Predictable, tedious, a woman protagonist whose major act of rebellion is wearing funny slippers and hanging out by the pool on her mother's Hillsborough estate...Puhleeze! Hard to believe this same writer created the characters in Angle and Crossing.
Rating: 1
Summary: Really, Wallace, you shouldn't have
Comment: I am a fervent Wallace Stegner reader, and couldn't believe I hadn't heard of this title. I wish to heaven that were still so. This novel was originally published in 1961. Perhaps he had some heavy financial obligations then - that's the only reason I can fish up for this laughably tawdry tale, told completely without his usual deftness and sensitivity (except when he's describing the natural world.) Those parts of the book I could bear to skim through were filled with incongruities - beginning with the putative heroine's name; what "old money" family of impeccable New England rectitude would have named a daughter "Sabrina"? And it's embarrassingly easy to guess the role each character will play. This stuff is something Helen Gurley Brown would have bought for her Cosmo girls to read around the pool. If you want the real Stegner, the titan of the Stanford writing program, read "Women on the Wall" or "Crossing to Safety" or "Angle of Repose" or almost any other of his fictional works; and by all means seek out his environmental writings.
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Title: All the Little Live Things (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Earle Stegner ISBN: 0140154418 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Recapitulation by Wallace Earle Stegner ISBN: 0140266739 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Remembering Laughter by Wallace Earle Stegner ISBN: 0140252401 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Earle Stegner ISBN: 0140266747 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel by Wallace Earle Stegner ISBN: 0140139419 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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