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Language: English
Published by New York: Modern Library, Random House. Printed in the USA, 2000
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[LITERATURE]. Wallace Stenger (1909-1993). "Angle of Repose (Modern Library)." New York: Modern Library, Random House. Printed in the USA, 2000. First edition, first printing thus. English language. Hardcover with light grey cloth boards set in pictorial dust jacket. Novel with introduction. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. 25 oz. xvi, 636 pp. Vertical ripple in cloth on spine. Spine cocked. Shelf-wear. Small blue dot on inside back board. Text clean. Very Good in Very Good jacket. ISBN: 9780679603382. "An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner?a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past. Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970s counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother: an elegant and headstrong artist and pioneer who, together with her engineer husband, made her own journey through the hardscrabble West nearly a hundred years before. In discovering her story he excavates his own, probing the shadows of his experience and the America that has come of age around him.".…
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- Title
- Angle of Repose (Modern Library)
- Author
- Wallace Stenger (1909-1993)
- Publisher
- New York: Modern Library, Random House. Printed in the USA
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679603387
- ISBN 13
- 9780679603382
- Edition
- First edition, first printing th.
- Item weight
- 25 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x8
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and wives. Set in many parts of the West, Angle of Repose is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical--that endures as Wallace Stegner's masterwork: an illumination of yesterday's reality that speaks to today's.
"Angle of Repose is a long, intricate, deeply rewarding novel," wrote William Abrahams in the Atlantic Monthly. "[It] is neither the predictable historical-regional Western epic, nor the equally predictable four-decker family saga, the Forsytes in California, so to speak. . . . For all [its] breadth and sweep, Angle of Repose achieves an effect of intimacy, hence of immediacy, and, though much of the material is 'historical,' an effect of discovery also, of experience newly minted rather than a pageantlike re-creation. . . . Wallace Stegner has written a superb novel, with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contemporary fiction."
"Angle of Repose is a novel about Time, as much as anything--about people who live through time, who believe in both a past and a future. . . . It reveals how even the most rebellious crusades of our time follow paths that our great-grandfathers' feet beat dusty."
--Wallace Stegner
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