Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Book description
Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer 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.
Like other great quests in literature, Lyman Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. The result is a deeply moving novel that, through the prism of one family, illuminates the American present against the fascinating background of its past. Published in 1971; 569 pages.
Description from book jacket

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Discussion questions
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Additional information
“Annotations of Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose.”  Students at the University of North Carolina in Pembroke put together this list of the scores of people, places, events, magazines, companies, characters, even principles of physics that Stegner alludes to in Angle of Repose.
“The Stegner Collection.”  A digital collection of family photographs, portraits, honorary degrees, book signings of Wallace Stegner available from the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library.


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