Angle of Repose | Themes
Lyman Ward is on a quest to understand why his life has taken the shape it has. He has trouble at first focusing on a theme for his fictionalized biography of his grandmother, Susan Burling Ward. In a conversation with his son, Rodman, he says, "I'm not writing a book of Western history . . . . I've written enough history books to know this isn't one. I'm writing about something else. A marriage, I guess." He decides that marriage is the main theme of his book. "What really interests me," he says, "is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill...
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