Angle of repose : [a novel]

Format:

Book

Title:

Angle of repose : [a novel]

Author:

Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993, author.

ISBN:

9780140169300

Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, [1971]

Physical Description:

569 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

Subtitle from book jacket.

Contents:

Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoacán -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage.

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, 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.

Subject(s):

People with disabilities -- Fiction.

Married people -- Fiction.

Grandparents -- Fiction.

Historians -- Fiction.

Adultery -- Fiction.

Older people -- Fiction.

American fiction -- 20th century.

California -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

California -- Fiction.

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Doubleday & Company, Inc.,

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Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discoveryÂpersonal, 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.

Author Notes

In 1972, Wallace Earle Stegner won a Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971), a novel about a wheelchair-bound man's recreation of his New England grandmother's experience in a late nineteenth-century frontier town. Stegner was born on February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa. He was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian; he has been called "The Dean of Western Writers". He also won the US National Book Award in 1977 for The Spectator Bird.

Stegner grew up in Great Falls, Montana; Salt Lake City, Utah; and in the village of Eastend, Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. Stegner taught at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Eventually he settled at Stanford University, where he initiated the creative writing program. His students included Wendell Berry, and Sandra Day O'Connor. The Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University is a two-year creative writing fellowship. The house Stegner lived in from age 7 to 12 in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, was restored by the Eastend Arts Council in 1990 and established as a Residence for Artists; the Wallace Stegner Grant For The Arts offers a grant of $500 and free residency at the house for the month of October for published Canadian writers.

Stegner died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on April 13, 1993, from a car accident on March 28, 1993.

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