Angle of repose /
Wallace Stegner ; with an introduction by Jackson J. Benson.
- New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
- xxx, 557 pages ; 20 cm.
- Penguin twentieth-century classics .
- Penguin twentieth-century classics. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxx).
The author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Wheelchair bound with a crippling bone disease and dependent on others for his every need, he is nonetheless embarking on a search of monumental proportions: to rediscover his grandmother, now long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. Like other great quests in literature Ward's investigation leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. -- From back cover.
People with disabilities--Fiction. Married people--Fiction. Grandparents--Fiction. Historians--Fiction. Adultery--Fiction. Older people--Fiction. Adultery. Grandparents. Historians. Married people. Older people. People with disabilities.