An unforgettable masterpiece by Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner!

When Lyman Ward, a retired history professor, loses a leg to a bone disease, he retreats to his grandparents' old house. There, he is alone with his own past as much as with his grandmother's life and decides to write. For a historian, to look into one's past is to look into everyone's past, and the past of that country. Suddenly we find ourselves in the fascinating canyons and plateaus of the West, in the towns built around mines and the people among whom we wander with admiration, curiosity and desire. The civilization, nature, love, morality, morality, economy, education, marriage, sexuality of the past and the present are also affected by Lyman's gaze into the past. Ward does not fall for the romantic games of memory, and never falls into its pink traps. Pulitzer Prize-winning Stegner's Lyman is not as dependent on memory as Proust's Marcel, who traces lost time. Lyman Ward is a historian; he constructs and remembers the past with the documents he has.

With its exuberant language, modern fiction with its sharp turns between times, and its restless nature scenes that engrave the West in our minds as a gigantic engraving, The Moment of Satiation carries us to the heights of literary pleasure in pursuit of its extraordinary characters embroidered like needlework.
It also allows us to witness a specific and very vivid period of American history.

"Whatever you may think," says Lyman Ward, "I am everything I was."