Bibliograph

Angle of repose, Wallace Stegner

Type

Label

Angle of repose, Wallace Stegner

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Angle of repose

Oclc number

24953754

Responsibility statement

Wallace Stegner

Series statement

Contemporary American fiction

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, 6.9, 35.0, 10829., MCPLAccelerated Reader, Grades 9-12, 6.9, 35, SD, Quiz 10829, English fiction.

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

Table Of Contents

Grass Valley -- New Almaden -- Santa Cruz -- Leadville -- Michoacán -- On the bough -- The canyon -- The mesa -- The Zodiac Cottage

Classification