num_pages: 557
description: The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, no long dead, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a hundred years earlier.
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: 58430
places: American West, California, Idaho
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin