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

Nā: Momo rauemi: TextTextSeries: Penguin twentieth-century classicsKaiwhakaputa: New York : Penguin Books, 2000Whakaahuatanga: xxx, 557 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0141185473
  • 9780141185477
  • 9780141188003
  • 0141188006
Ngā marau: Genre/Form: 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.
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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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