A Shooting Star, Wallace Stegner
A Shooting Star, Wallace Stegner
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A Shooting Star

Author: Wallace Stegner

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 17 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2010


Synopsis

Sabrina Castro is a wealthy, attractive woman married to an older physician who no longer fulfills her dreams. An accidental misstep leads her down the path of moral disintegration. How she comes to terms with her life is the theme of this absorbing personal drama played out against the backdrop of an old Peninsula estate where her mother lives among her servants, her memories of Boston, and her treasured family archives. Now on audio for the first time, A Shooting Star displays the storytelling powers that Wallace Stegners fans have enjoyed for more than half a century.

About Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) wrote many books of fiction and nonfiction, including Crossing to Safety and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on June 26, 2023

I read and discussed this book years ago when I first retired. I had signed up through a local community college emeritus class that discussed books and also included local author visits. This class was what encouraged me to go to my local library and offer my services to facilitate a Library Discus......more

Goodreads review by Judy on November 03, 2014

Wallace Stegner has been an uneven novelist for this reader. I first read his 1943 historical The Big Rock Candy Mountain, a book I could not put down. The Preacher and the Slave, about Joe Hill and the Wobblies was also riveting. A couple others left me either bored or less than enraptured. He was......more

Goodreads review by Old Man on October 31, 2023

Definitely my least favorite book by Stegner. It's the story of a woman, Sabrina Castro, who is married to a doctor but is frustrated by his busy schedule and feels neglected. She has an affair on the side and decides she wants to leave her marriage and drives all night from her home in Pasadena to......more

Goodreads review by Tim on February 03, 2010

Wallace Stegner's best work as a novelist (excepting "The Big Rock Candy Mountain," certainly in his top four) came after age 57; the proof is in the awards ("Angle of Repose," Pulitzer Prize, 1971; "The Spectator Bird," National Book Award, six years later) and in critical consensus. "A Shooting St......more

Goodreads review by Bob on August 21, 2014

Sabrina Castro is the wealthy and attractive wife of a Pasadena physician and also the offspring of a transplanted New England family that found wealth but never a sense of purpose. Life begins to unravel for Sabrina after twelve years of childless marriage as a "trophy" wife when she takes a vacati......more