num_pages: 569
description: 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.Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical.
language: English
title: Angle of Repose
titlecomplete: Angle of Repose
characters: Lyman Ward, Oliver Ward, Rodman Ward, Frank Sargent, Susan Burling Ward, Shelly Rasmussen, Ellen Ward, Ada Topham
genres: Classics, Historical, Novels, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Book Club
ratings_count: 58436
places: American West, California, Idaho
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin