Angle of repose

Description:

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.

subjects: 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, general

Places: California,  United States