skip to content
Angle of repose
ClosePreview this item

Angle of repose

Author: Wallace Stegner
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1971]
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward,  Read more...
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-1993.
Angle of repose.
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, [1971]
(OCoLC)575522813
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Wallace Stegner
OCLC Number: 127553
Awards: Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1972.
Description: 569 p. 22 cm.
Contents: Grass Valley --
New Almaden --
Santa Cruz --
Leadville --
Michoacán --
On the bough --
The canyon --
The mesa --
The Zodiac Cottage.
Responsibility: [by] Wallace Stegner.

Abstract:

Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides to write his grandparent's history. The Pulitzer Prize-winning classic has been selected by the board of the Modern Library as one of the best hundred novels of the 20th century.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

All user tags (1)

View most popular tags as: tag list | tag cloud

Similar Items

Related Subjects:(7)

User lists with this item (13)

Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.