Angle of repose

by

569 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1992 by Penguin Books.

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4 stars (3 reviews)

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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4 stars

Sublime. Well, the first two-thirds anyway. Hope, disillusionment, strength, stoicism, regret, loss, in a beautifully woven timeline. But then it seems to lose direction and energy, floundering until a really quite dreadful finale.

I have to say I loved it anyway, but would probably recommend new readers to put it down after The Canyon.

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Subjects

  • People with disabilities -- Fiction
  • Married people -- Fiction
  • Grandparents -- Fiction
  • Historians -- Fiction
  • Adultery -- Fiction
  • Older people -- Fiction
  • California -- Fiction