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Angle of Repose

By Wallace Stegner

By Wallace Stegner

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Nov 04, 2014 | ISBN 9781101872765

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
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About Angle of Repose

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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About Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal), Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction… More about Wallace Stegner

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Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $19.00
Published by Vintage
Nov 04, 2014 | 672 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781101872765
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Praise

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

Awards

Pulitzer Prize WINNER 1972

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