Angle of repose
by Wallace Stegner
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Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides to write his grandparent's history. The Pulitzer Prize-winning classic has been selected by the board of the Modern Library as one of the best hundred novels of the 20th century.
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Grandparents in fiction, Married people in fiction, Fiction, People with disabilities in fiction, Adultery in fiction, Literature, Grandparents, Married people, Aged in fiction, California, Historians, Classic Literature, Open Library Staff Picks, Older people, Historians in fiction, People with disabilities, California in fiction, Adultery, Aged, Older people in fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Genealogy, Family, Pioneers, Families, Family life, Elderly, Fictional Works [Publication Type], Domestic fiction, Disabled Persons, Fiction, family life, People with disabilities, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), California, fiction, Married people, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Fiction, family life, generalPlaces
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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.
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