Angle of Repose (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stegner
- First Published: 1971
- 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
The Work
Angle of Repose, which won, in 1972, the Pulitzer Prize for Wallace Stegner, unites past and present in telling two stories: Lyman Ward’s history of his grandparents and his need to keep his identity and independence as he copes with his disability. Lyman, a historian forced to retire because of a debilitating disease, wants to write about the marriage of his grandparents, Oliver Ward and Susan Burling Ward, an author, artist, and illustrator. Oliver was an engineer and manager of mines, and Lyman’s history chronicles the couple’s settlement of the West in...
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