An iconic novel of the American West - a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother - now long dead - who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. But ...
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An iconic novel of the American West - a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of the past Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, in the Sierra Nevada. Living with a debilitating bone disease, he embarks on a search of monumental proportions, as he strives to rediscover the life of his grandmother - now long dead - who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier. But as he explores his grandmother's history, Lyman's great quest also leads him deep into the dark shadows of his own life. Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Angle of Repose is Wallace Stegner's masterpiece and a fascinating glimpse into frontier-era America. With an Introduction by JACKSON J. BENSON
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Hardcover. NOT Ex-library. Acceptable/fair. Dust jacket in "Acceptable" condition with creases, stains, fading, tears and chips. Large chip on top right corner of DJ. DJ is price clipped with stains and fading inside DJ. Bumping to hardcover corners and spine. Edgewear and bumping. Some wear to top/bottom of hardcover spine. Indentation on bottom edge of back hardcover. Foxing to pages edges. Indentation marks on bottom page edges. Fading inside front hardcover, especiall on front free end paper. Yellowed pages and page edges. Slightly soiled page edges. Clean pages and tight binding. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
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Very Good. Good DJ. No Exp Doubleday 1971 Book Club Edition Light wear to light-blue cloth with embossed gold lettering. Binding lightly shaken with solid hinges. 569 pages. Page edges darkend. Inside page edges deckled. Gutter Code "04 M". Jacket #3248. Bright glossy mended dust jacket with heavy mending, chipping to spine ends protected in clear Brodart dust jacket cover. HEAVY ITEM.
This love story beautifully captures the tension between the sophisticated East and the bumptious ever optimistic West during the second half of the nineteenth century. If you want to learn how the western pioneers and opportunists really lived and thought while following the not so easy marriage of the fully fleshed out protaganists of the story then you will enjoy and appreciate this classic novel.
TheWhiteRock
Dec 18, 2008
1880's US history like you've never heard it!
Although this is fiction, I learned more about 19th century America, especially the west, than I ever did from history books. It is really two stories in one: The narrator tells us about his life as a middle-aged man in a wheelchair, living alone, fighting to maintain his independence., while at the same time he is telling us about a book he is writing about his grandparents, who were among those involved with the earliest mining camps in America. It is the act of writing this book that keeps him sane.
The characterizations of his grandparents and their children are fascinating, as they move from mining camp to mining camp, living under wild and primitive conditions, building America.
greebs
Apr 23, 2008
THE Great American Novel
I have bad news for aspiring writers...the great American novel has already been written. Wallace Stegner is perennially under rated, but no one should miss this sweeping story of a modern man and his ancestors who helped settle the West. It's simply brilliant - each page has language that is stunning in its simple elegance and the story is truly amazing. I can't recommend this book enough.
