Angle of Repose (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stegner
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: The late 1860’s to 1970
- Setting: California, the Dakotas, Colorado, Idaho, and Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, California, West, U.S., Novelists, Historians, Mexico or Mexicans, Pacific Northwest, Diseases
- Locales: California, Mexico, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho
Characters Discussed
Lyman Ward, a retired University of California history professor and past winner of the Bancroft Prize. Lyman, in his late fifties and suffering from a degenerative bone disease that confines him to a wheelchair, has been abandoned by his adulterous wife, Ellen Hammond Ward. To pass the time, he begins researching the personal history of his grandparents, Oliver Ward and Susan Burling Ward, who spent most of their adult lives in the American West, his academic specialty. He is extremely opinionated, and his attitudes toward the social experiments of the...
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