Angle of repose
Call Number
- FICTION STEG (CEN)
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, 2014.
Physical Description
632 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Notes
"Originally published in the United States by Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, in 1971"--Title page verso.