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

By:

Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Penguin twentieth-century classicsPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2000Description: xxx, 557 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0141185473
9780141185477
9780141188003
0141188006

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

DDC classification:

813/.52 21

LOC classification:

PS3537.T316 A8 2000

Online resources:

Contents:

Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoacán -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage.

Awards:

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1972.

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.

List(s) this item appears in: Literary westerns

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	Eltham LibraryPlus Fiction	Fiction	STEG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		i2230114

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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.

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