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Original Title:	Angle of Repose
ISBN:	0140169300 (ISBN13: 9780140169300)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lyman Ward, Susan Burling Ward, Oliver Ward, Rodman Ward, Frank Sargent, Ada Topham, Shelly Rasmussen, Ellen Ward
Setting:	American West(United States) California(United States) Idaho(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1972)

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

Paperback | Pages: 569 pages

Rating: 4.27 | 49580 Users | 4244 Reviews

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Title	:	Angle of Repose
Author	:	Wallace Stegner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 569 pages
Published	:	May 28th 1992 by Penguin (first published March 1st 1971)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature

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Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.

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As I read this, I thought, "this is about a 4 star read." So why did I give it 5 stars? It is such a beautiful book, that's why. There were many parts that didn't seem to move along, which is why I thought I would be stingy, but I'm so very glad the author took his time. And I felt myself talking to the characters, mostly Susan. "Don't be so removed from your life - how many do you get?" Could I be so involved with a story and not give it 5 stars?

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1972, this book is considered by some to be Stegners masterpiece. Its a great read that is largely based on the true story of a woman pioneer in the west when so many other books about this era tell the stories of men. Layered on the frontier story is the fictional story of the man writing it who turns these pioneers into his grandparents. An older divorced man confined to a wheel chair with one leg missing, Stegner interweaves his narrators isolation

Stegner makes the job of writing seem effortless.  His brilliance shines through as he uses wheelchair-bound Lyman, a writer writing the history of his grandmother Susan Ward going back to circa 1870-1895. Susan's published writings and illustrations and her personal letters of her married life in the American West  provide him  (and we readers) wonderful insight into the human experience--interpersonal  relationships, a marriage between social opposites--seamlessly juxtaposed with Lyman's

Fiction moves me most when its most piercingly honest when it reveals to me places in my heart that Ive been afraid to recognize. Wallace Stegners Angle of Repose examines the part of us that's reluctant to forgive and that cannot seem to learn how to forget. The book is hauntingly true and ruthlessly introspective and it left me, at times, gasping for breath at the beauty of its lyricism - it could serve well as a master class in honest writing. Stegner writes from the perspective of a

I have read this book twice so far. The first time, I was a single college student. The second time, I had been married about five years. I'm sure I will read it again a few more times. And I'm sure that the more years of marriage I've logged, the more I will get out of this book. Marriage, and what it takes -- and takes out of you -- to make it work is the main theme of this book. Stegner has some profound things to say about it. But even before I could personally relate to the story's main

It's perfectly clear to me that if a writer is born to write one story, this is my story.Wallace StegnerWallace Stegner (1909-1993), born in Lake Mills Iowa, died in Santa Fe. Historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist. Jackson Benson, in his Introduction to this edition, identifies the major strands of his career as his love of the land, his concern for history, his advocacy of cooperation, his antagonism toward rugged individualism, and his dedication to writing. Some of his

As I read this, I thought, "this is about a 4 star read." So why did I give it 5 stars? It is such a beautiful book, that's why. There were many parts that didn't seem to move along, which is why I thought I would be stingy, but I'm so very glad the author took his time. And I felt myself talking to the characters, mostly Susan. "Don't be so removed from your life - how many do you get?" Could I be so involved with a story and not give it 5 stars?