Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

ISBN 10: 0449237966 / ISBN 13: 9780449237960

Published by Fawcett, 1981

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0449237966I3N00

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.

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"

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"

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""

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"

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: Angle of Repose
Publisher: Fawcett
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Unknown
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket