[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.
Wallace StegnerAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 18, 1909
- Died: April 13, 1993
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