Angle of repose / Wallace Stegner ; with an introduction by Jackson J. Benson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin twentieth-century classicsPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2000.Description: xxx, 557 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0141185473
  • 9780141185477
  • 9780141188003
  • 0141188006
  • 9781101872765
  • 1101872764
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.52 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3537.T316 A8 2000b
Online resources:
Contents:
  • Pulitzer Prize winner.
Summary: 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.
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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.

Pulitzer Prize winner.

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