Did you know this book was autobiographical? Here is a biography of Stegner
Also, this book is a sequel, the first book is Big Rock Candy Mountain and takes place when the main character, Bruce, is a boy.
Do you know the meaning of recapitulation?
- recapitulate - summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas"
- recapitulate - repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
- recapitulate - reprise: repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- Final section in a piece of music written in sonata form or fugue form that repeats the themes presented in the exposition, and returns to the original key if modulation has occurred.