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Angle of repose

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1971]Description: 569 p. 22 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.5/2
LOC classification:
  • PZ3.S818 An
Contents:
Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoac�an -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage.
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1972
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PZ3.S818 An 1 Available 34517000141799

Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoac�an -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage.

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.

Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1972

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