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You are bidding on this Vintage First Edition Hard Cover copy of All The Little Live Things, by Wallace Stegner. It was published by The Viking Press, and has a copyright date of 1967. The book has no dust jacket but it is in very good condition, with only light wear at the corners and edges. The spine and binding are holding well, and all 248 pages are intact and in good condition, but slightly yellowed with age. The book is .75" thick, 8.5" long, and 5.5" wide. It is a very nice first edition of this wonderful book...All the Little Live Things is a novel by award winning novelist Wallace Stegner. In this novel, Wallace Stegner explores the animosity between the younger and older generations in the sixties. Joe Allston is a retired book editor who recently built a house in a rural California community in order to live out his retirement. Joe becomes involved with two members of the younger generation, one a free-spirited student who takes advantage of Joe's kindness while living on his property, and the other a young mother who gives her life in a struggle with cancer to bring her unborn baby into the world. Joe will find himself at times at odds with both these characters but will also learn from them in a way that will leave him irrevocably changed. All the Little Live Things begins as a novel of generation against generation, but quickly becomes a novel about individual experiences and personal growth.