Women on the Wall

Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories ofThe Women on the Wallmove from women to war and back again, but it is the women who remain central. There are Alma, a war bride who runs a farm better than the neighbor men; Lucy, a former WAAF, working through college; Tamsen, who keeps her husband drunk so she can do as she pleases; and the women on the wall, who, with nothing to do but wait for their husbands to return from the war, find their private consolations. To these stories Wallace Stegner brings the same skill and thoughtfulness that won him the National Book Award forThe Spectator BirdStegner, Wallace is the author of 'Women on the Wall' with ISBN 9780803241114 and ISBN 0803241119.