Angle of repose /
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993,
Angle of repose / Wallace Stegner ; with an introduction by Jackson J. Benson. - xxx, 557 pages ; 20 cm. - Penguin twentieth-century classics. . - Penguin twentieth-century classics. .
Includes bibliographical references (page xxix-xxx).
Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoacán -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage.
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, Fiction, 1972.
0141185473 9780141185477 9780141188003 0141188006
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People with disabilities--Fiction.
Married people--Fiction.
Grandparents--Fiction.
Historians--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.
Older people--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3537.T316 / A8 2000
813/.52
Angle of repose / Wallace Stegner ; with an introduction by Jackson J. Benson. - xxx, 557 pages ; 20 cm. - Penguin twentieth-century classics. . - Penguin twentieth-century classics. .
Includes bibliographical references (page xxix-xxx).
Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoacán -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage.
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, Fiction, 1972.
0141185473 9780141185477 9780141188003 0141188006
00062402
People with disabilities--Fiction.
Married people--Fiction.
Grandparents--Fiction.
Historians--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.
Older people--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3537.T316 / A8 2000
813/.52