Angle of Repose: Wallace Stegner - Softcover

Stegner, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1101872764 ISBN 13: 9781101872765

Publisher: Vintage, 2014

Synopsis

An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner--a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past.

Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.

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Review:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"Masterful...Reading it is an experience to be treasured."--Boston Globe

"Brilliant...Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what important fiction must: a sense of the enhancement of life."--Los Angeles Times

"Cause for celebration...A superb novel with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contemporary fiction."--The Atlantic Monthly

About the Author:

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1101872764
• ISBN 13: 9781101872765
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672