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Long, engrossing plot with interesting twists and a very few curse words. Pulitzer Prize winner and deservedly so. Couldn’t put it down. Well performed by the narrator. Lots of USA history .
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Angle of Repose tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease and dependent on others for his every need, Ward is nonetheless embarking on a search of monumental proportions - to rediscover his grandmother, now long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life.
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0 pages, Audio Cassette
First published February 23,1996
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0 pages, Audio Cassette
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February 23, 1996 by Books on Tape, Inc.
- ISBN
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9780736632812
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0736632816
- Language
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English
About the author
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Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers." He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
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I didn't listen to the audio recording of this, but they didn't have a picture of the book otherwise. This is the novel he won the Pulitzer Prize for. The narrator is a survivor of bone disease and is confined to a wheelchair. He can move his arms independently. He has moved back into his grandparents' farm house and is going through the reams of letters, artwork, and journals of his grandparents (his grandfather was an engineer in the New West and his grandmother a celebrated artist from the Hudson School). His grandparents had started out Easterners with at least his grandmother assuming that they would eventually move back there to be part of the literary circle she had grown to love and be a part of. His grandfather, however, was a self-taught engineer, mapping miles and miles of mines in California, Idaho and elsewhere. This book shows 4 generations of a western family and how Eastern culture shaped them and how they eventually became westerners. Filled with awesome views of the western united states through stegner's beautiful writing. I'm re-reading currently.
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A Pulitzer Prize novel written in the 1970s. Wallace Stegner is one of my new favorite authors. This book is reported to be a type of western with much philosophical pros and an amazing description of what it must have been to be a woman in the west, trying to live like a woman from the east. A magnificent book which would be wonderful to read at night with friends or lovers in front of a fireplace. It is not a happy book and it ends with the possibility of the ultimate forgiveness.
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