Angle of Repose (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stegner
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1860-1970
- Setting: California, the Dakotas, Colorado, Idaho, and Mexico
- Principal Characters: Lyman Ward, Ellen Hammond Ward, Rodman Ward, Susan Burling Ward, Oliver Ward, Augusta Drake Hudson, Thomas Hudson, Ada Hawkes, Shelly Rasmussen
- 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 Story:
Fifty-eight-year-old Lyman Ward had been a history professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where his research had won for him a Bancroft Prize. Following his retirement, Lyman, a partial invalid since he lost a leg to a bone disease, moved to Grass Valley, California. He lived in Zodiac Cottage, which had been built and inhabited for many years by his paternal grandparents, Oliver and Susan Burling Ward. There he found the letters from which he reconstructed the story of his grandparents’ lives.
Oliver, a self-taught engineer and a cousin of...
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