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reviewed Angle of repose by Wallace Stegner (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

Wallace Stegner: Angle of repose (2000, Penguin Books) 4 stars

Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to …

Review of 'Angle of repose' on 'Goodreads'

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.