Angle of Repose
$42.30
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2006
Summary
An iconic novel of the American West - a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past
In 1960s America, Lyman Ward, a retired history professor and author of books about the Western frontier, returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Abandoned by his wife and wheelchair-bound with a debilitating bone disease, Ward embarks on a search of monumental proportions - to rediscover the life story of his grandmother Susan Burling Ward, who made her own journe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188003 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141188006 |
| Author: | Wallace Stegner, Jackson J. Benson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 436g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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“Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what important fiction must: a sense of the enhancement of life”. – Los Angeles Times
About The Author
Wallace Stegner
Born in Iowa in 1909, Wallace Stegner was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist and historian. He is the author of 30 books including Angle of Repose (1971) and The Spectator Bird (1977). He received a Pulitzer Prize, a US National Book Award, several O. Henry prizes, and the 1980 Robert Kirsch award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime literary achievements. He died in a car accident in 1993.
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