There are a few surprises in the collection. The interviews are comprehensive and well planned but not restrictively so Etulain frequently follows up on new topics Stegner has introduced. His questions indicate thought and care and a thorough knowledge of both Stegner's work and its critical reception. One of the most striking things about this volume is Etulain's resourcefulness as an interviewer. The transcripts of the interviews were revised only minimally, so there is some repetition in the volume, particularly in the chapter on the Mormons.
The interviews begin with biographical clarifications, treat the fiction next (with separate chapters on The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Angle of Repose), and then turn to the Mormons, western literature, western history, and the western wilderness, with a concluding miscellaneous chapter. Etulain in 19, is an event of signal importance to all admirers of Stegner's work. Any new book by Wallace Stegner is a cause for celebration among students of the fiction and history of the American West, and this collection of ten interviews, conducted by Richard W.
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