Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories of The Women on the Wall move 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 for The Spectator Bird
- ISBN10 0670001058
- ISBN13 9780670001057
- Publish Date 5 January 1962
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 1 December 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English