Wallace Stegner
Paperback | Pages: 569 pages Rating: 4.27 | 49580 Users | 4244 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Angle of Repose |
| ISBN: | 0140169300 (ISBN13: 9780140169300) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lyman Ward, Susan Burling Ward, Oliver Ward, Rodman Ward, Frank Sargent, Ada Topham, Shelly Rasmussen, Ellen Ward |
| Setting: | American West(United States) California(United States) Idaho(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1972) |
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Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.Itemize Out Of Books Angle of Repose
| Title | : | Angle of Repose |
| Author | : | Wallace Stegner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 569 pages |
| Published | : | May 28th 1992 by Penguin (first published March 1st 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Literature |
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Ratings: 4.27 From 49580 Users | 4244 ReviewsNotice Out Of Books Angle of Repose
This book started out great, but quickly got repetitive for me. Learning on Wikipedia that Stegner derived (with permission!) large parts of it from real letters published the next year certainly took winds out of my sails. Several critics have mentioned that Stegner's version of Mary Hallock Foote diverges considerably from the original - a necessity for the author trying to fit his story to her narrative. That being said, it is impossible not to recognize the talent behind the writing and theWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1972, this book is considered by some to be Stegners masterpiece. Its a great read that is largely based on the true story of a woman pioneer in the west when so many other books about this era tell the stories of men. Layered on the frontier story is the fictional story of the man writing it who turns these pioneers into his grandparents. An older divorced man confined to a wheel chair with one leg missing, Stegner interweaves his narrators isolation
Little did I expect that the taming of the Wild West could be so intricately reflected in the ongoing evolution of a marriage, with all its tensions, compromises and sporadic moments of exultation; a marriage that seemed doomed to failure from the start.Lyman Ward, retired historian and scholar, now prostrated in a wheelchair, sets his mind to write the story of his grandparents and their generation, of the many young adventurers who embarked on a non-return trip to the inhospitable Western
Stegner won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1972 for this book. Goes to show you that you should disregard my reviews! Absolutely no taste, whatsoever. This book took me over two months to read because I kept putting it down. Down being the operative word here. It was not only a "downer", but lacked the skill of a good editor. In today's publishing world, Stegner wouldn't have gotten away with such a ponderous, heavy book. This was written in the "old way," with the author making it apparent
Fellow Goodreaders know that feeling of exhilaration when a new entrant pushes its way onto a top-ten-of-all-time list. Wallace Stegners Pulitzer Prize winner from 1972 is my most recent example. Of course, Goodreads reviewers also know the pressure involved in justifying the choice. So what makes this one so good? As befits a top ten inclusion, here are ten factors that come to mind. 1. A Damn Good Story Lyman Ward is a former professor of history with a bone disease that put him in a
Until the last two chapters, I found this history of the dissolution of a love and marriage written by a writer in 1970 about his grandmother in the 1800s to be as slow as real time and as agonizing as the real events. The writing was wonderful, but rather than enjoy it, I found myself wanting to "have read it" more than I wanted to be reading it. And about three-quarters of the way through, the 1970s writer bemoans the same agony I was feeling:About this time I need some Mister Bones to say to
On the Wings of Love"He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy,But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise."William BlakeThis novel is structured with a fictional novelist writing a novel (meta-fiction) based on the life of his grandmother (which character is partly based the life of a real woman). The story travels between 1) the 1st person account of the novelist, a retired lit prof who recently had a leg amputated, after which his wife left him for his
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