Angle of Repose
Language: English
Adultery California Fiction General Gerontology Grandparents Historians Literary Married people Older people People with disabilities Romance Social Science United States Women artists
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Mar 14, 2006
Description:
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.
SUMMARY:
The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, no long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier.