Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

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Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

Angle of Repose (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

by Wallace Stegner
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Book Overview

by Wallace Stegner (Author)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A "masterful" (Boston Globe) portrait of four generations in an American family and the traditions of our national past

"Brilliant . . . Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what important fiction must: a sense of the enhancement of life."--Los Angeles Times

Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependent on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.

Author Biography

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.

Number of Pages: 672
Dimensions: 1.2 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: November 04, 2014
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Angle of Repose
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 6.9
Point Value: 35
ISBN9781101872765
Author Wallace Stegner
PublisherVintage
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages672
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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