Fiction: Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Wallace Stegner
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 admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward`s investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating bac... Read more... |
