Book :: Angle of Repose
| By: | Wallace Stegner |
| Pages: | 569 |
| Published: | 1971 |
| Genre(s): | Historical Fiction |
| Western | |
| American | |
| Award(s): | Pulitzer Prize (1972) |
| Rating: | (3) |
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Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to...
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jobecka
This is a modern day Anna Karenina. Stegnar is a wordsmith. I love how he points out the grass is not always greener.
Nov 19th, 2013
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